U.S. cancer incidence, mortality largely stable or decreasing

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The analysis, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, is the latest in a series of annual reports on cancer compiled since 1998 by the NAACCR, the ACS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute.
The organizations found decreases over the past 20 years in the number of new cases for several of the major cancers diagnosed among men, including prostate, lung, colon, stomach, brain and throat cancers. There were also decreases among colon, ovary, cervix, oral and stomach cancers among women.
Overall, cancer diagnoses decreased by 1.8 percent each year between 2007 and 2011 among men, and remained stable among women.

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Improving survival rates for various forms of cancer can be seen in most developed countries around the world, with some areas seeing significant progress in recent years. In the UK for example, women with myeloma showed a 5-year survival increase from 41.6 percent between 2007 and 2011 to 46.2 percent between 2008 and 2012. For men diagnosed with prostate cancer, the improvement in survival rates has increased from 83.6 percent to 87.6 percent.

In the US, cancer death rates have dropped 22 percent in the last 20 years. Experts attribute the change to better screening, earlier detection, improved treatments, and lower smoking rates. Additionally, Canadian cancer rates are the lowest they have been in a decade, and death rates are continuously dropping.

For patients diagnosed with colon cancer between 2005 and 2009, survival rates have reached 60 percent or higher in 22 different countries. Japan and South Korea showed a high 5-year survival rate (from 54 to 58 percent) for those diagnosed with stomach cancer.