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Cancer death rates have continued to decline in both men and women in recent years, according to a new report.
Between 2004 and 2008, cancer death rates decreased by 1.8 percent per year in men, and by 1.6 percent per year in women. Overall cancer incidence rates overall that period declined by 0.6 percent per year in men and were stable in women, according to the report from the American Cancer Society.
However, rates of new cases of a few specific cancers, including pancreatic cancer and melanoma, are on the rise, according to the report.
In 2012, more than 577,000 people will die from cancer in the United States, and more than 1,638,000 people will be diagnosed with the disease, according to estimates in the report.
The report is published yearly, and is online today (Jan. 4) in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Other findings include:
- Death rates continued to decline between 2004 and 2008 for all four major cancer sites (lung, colorectum, breast and prostate), with the drop in lung cancer's death rate accounting for almost 40 percent of the decline in men, and the drop in breast cancer's rate accounting for 34 percent of the decline in women.
- About 1,024,400 cancer deaths (732,900 in men and 291,500 in women) were averted between 1991 and 2008 as a reflection of 18 years of consistent declines in cancer death rates.
- Compared with Whites, African-American men and women have poorer chances of surviving once cancer is diagnosed. The five-year relative survival rate is lower in African Americans than in Whites for every stage of diagnosis, for nearly every type of cancer.
- Further drops in the death rate could be accelerated by applying existing cancer knowledge across all segments of the population, with an emphasis on those groups in the lowest socioeconomic bracket.
A special section of the article focuses on cancers that have been on the rise, including cancers of the pancreas, liver, thyroid and kidney, as well as melanoma, esophageal adenocarcinoma and certain types of oropharyngeal cancer associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.
The reasons for these increases are not entirely known. Part of the increase may be linked to the increasing prevalence of obesity, as well as increases in early detection practices for some cancers. These rising trends will exacerbate the growing cancer burden associated with population expansion and aging, the researchers say.
The report is based on data from the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The expected numbers of new cancer cases and cancer deaths should be interpreted with caution because these estimates are based on statistical models and may vary considerably from year to year, according to the report.
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If the piece-of-crap Obamacare is allowed to continue, these numbers will jump up significantly in the next 10 years.
Articles rarely discuss the effect of alternative medicine on cancer outcomes, yet surveys show anywhere from 20% to 60% of cancer patients get regular alternative medicine care. Given the poor results of US medicine, as shown in various studies including an extensive study by the World Health Organization, I would guess that the growing popularity of alternative medicine is contributing to better cancer outcomes.
Quite possibly the flat out dumbest first post I've ever seen on Newsvine.
Please, oh enlightened one, back this up with some 'numbers.'
Your ignorant post is an indication of the ignorance fostered by the AMA and the medical industry over the past 60 years. May your ignorance soon turn to knowledge and may you soon realize the horrors modern medicine is inflicting on us with the treatment of this disease.
Oh you must have insurance and a job....how nice, I guess if your black or a minority your just SOL!
Well then I'd say you'd better get a job.
Either that or YOU Lori could take the financial burden onto your back since apparently its so easy.
Empathy, I should say is one of the greatest emotions we can exhibit as people. I don't make a lot, but I'm willing to help those less fortunate than I. Bring on the cost, I'll do what I can to help people thrive.
My husband died from Pancreactic Cancer and the only reason I found out is that I had to pay $3,500.00 for an Autopsy. Hospital wouldn't tell me what he died from. Stupid people who handled the death certificate, listed "possible cancer being the cause of the first seven possible causes of death they listed". Don't worry about Obama Care, it is well and alive in the hospitals now. Very, very ugly. Just don't get caught, or you are dead.
What did Obamacare have to do with your husband's death?
rememeber there will never be a cure for cancer. there probaly already has been, but to the government and job market cancer is money and jobs. irradicate cancer and a lot of doctors lose their jobs and no one wants that. as people, we are just a pawn that has to deal with it.
There is a pretty good cure for cancer already...been around for a very long time, but the powerful pharmaceutical companies don't want people to know about it. Google "Gerson Therapy". Basically, it consists of detoxifying the body & eating/drinking (i.e., juicing) organic fruits & vegetables. By detoxifying the body & pumping it full of vitamins & enzymes from the fruits & vegetables (and not eating crap), it puts your body back into a state of where it should be...the state of being able to cure itself and also to not get sick in the first place.
Put out an article related to medicine and the quacks come out of the woodwork.
Guess they don't want to talk about the cancers that are killing children. Not enough research is being done for pediactric cancer. Today there will be 46 children diagnosed and 7 children will die. How about we start talking about those numbers!
Are you getting me??? We have made TREMENDOUS strides in cure rates for the most common types of childhood cancers, the leukemias (acute lymphocytic and myelogenous) and the lymphomas. I see it all the time on my bench; children are beating these cancers. Early detection and observing your child for signs that something may be wrong are the keys. Granted, the diagnosis of childhood cancer is devastating for a child and the parents, but now children often live for years, even decades with the disease whereas twenty years ago those words could be translated as "certain death."
Where did you get your source for the 46 diagnosed / 7 deaths, anyway???
The National Cancer Institute are liars, There has been at least two known cures but the FDA, National Cancer Institute, Federal Government don't want people to know because they would have to go back on yet another lie. The federal government and NCI plus FDA even stole one cure's patent just to try and hide it.
What are the two known cures ... my wife has stage 4 non smokers lung cancer will it cure this Cancer?
Congoman,
it is possible, but no guarantee's if she's too far along. But it's definitely
worth the effort. My boss was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He went to the
pathologist and made him show him the cancer. He had it. Saw it. Believed it.
Then he went to a holistic doctor in Tulsa, OK who put him on the Gerson
Therapy. Two years later, he was and remains cancer free. I
do a modified version of it and I am 6 years cancer free from testicular
cancer. (Oh, I forgot to mention that praying has lot to do with it.)
also, burzynskihttp://www.burzynskiclinic.com/...there is a great documentary available about this http://www.burzynskimovie.com/
See this video about Dr. Burzinski who discovered a cancer cure 40 years ago:
"Between 2004 and 2008, cancer death rates decreased by 1.8 percent per year in men, and by 1.6 percent per year in women."
Its Bush's fault.
Well the cancer death rate decline might be attributable to better screening /earlier intervention in the cases of breast and colon, and lung cancer rate very likely to less smokers. But the fact that other very serious cancers are on the rise and they don't know why is troublesome. Also, the way they track cancer deaths might be skewed. So really I don't take this as a great news article at all. I did just recently read somewhere that there is an elevated risk of esoph cancer with drugs like boniva and actonel .. I wonder how many cancers can be linked to other pharmaceutical drugs we're taking.
Of course obesity is mentioned as a cause for some of the rise in cancers. We all know this to be true because obesity is the latest health boogie man. Too bad the cancers that are said to be on the rise are not normally associated with obesity. The ones that we have been lead to believe that are related such as colon and breast are said to have dropped slightly. Odd, wouldn't you say?
Most of the medical studies you find today are classified as "junk science" and I have no doubt that this one is exactly that. Stuff like this is usually nothing more than a collection of manipulated and cherry-picked data boiled down into propaganda designed to promote one agenda or another.
There never will be a cure for cancer ........... There is TO MUCH money in the treatment. Go to the doctor's and find out you have cancer and the price double's on everything even the doctors visit. My wife has cancer and the price of the treatment is crazy . Like chemo 500ml of altima is $ 6000......... more than GOLD.
Cancer is BIG bussiness lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$ never will there be a cure.
You really, really do demonstrate your ignorance with this comment.
And you really, really do demonstrate your naivete with yours.
Treatment equals profit. It equals transfer of wealth from the 99% to the 1%.
Curing gains them nothing.
We spend more money on plasma televisions and eating fast food than we do as a nation searching for cures.
For a cure for Cancer I recommend see the documentary
Burzynski The Movie - Cancer Is Serious Business
www.burzynskimovie.com/
or you can see it on youtube
Excellent documentary! Thanks for sharing...I recommend anyone reading this to watch the Burzynski documentary!!!
Just CURE all Cancers--here is am idea--take a Doctor, Drug Company CEO, Congress member, Bank CEO---one each weekly--say Friday noon--and a selected city park --all the population gets to throw rocks at them all until dead!! Bet a cure is here in less than 2 weeks. Same for Diabetes and all diseases
I don't believe they will ever cure cancer. The movie Lifetime did a few years ago about a doctor who had a cure for one type of breast cancer and had to fight tooth and nail to get the funding and permission for the trials. There is a blood test out there to determine if you have cancer fighting cells in your blood but no insurance company will pay for it unless there is a huge rate of familial cancer in your family. Most people probably don't even know about it.
Yep, they sure have dropped. That's why I have lost 2 people to cancer in the past 2 weeks. One to Breast cancer 2 weeks ago, and one to Colo-rectal cancer that metastasized all the way to brain cancer about 3 hours ago.
Except for the one that counts.
Make way for diabetes!
Nothing will ever be cured as long as there's massive profit to be made for the 1%.
I love how these reports try to make it look like we are really making some progress in the war on cancer...through screening, cancer is being found in the earlier stages, making it more likely for people to not die during the "5 year survival" window. Surviving for 5 years doesn't mean that the cancer is gone though, it might just not have killed the person yet.
http://gerson.org/GersonTherapy/gersontherapy.htm
http://www.burzynskimovie.com/
This has to be bad news for the drug companies. you have to realize there is no money in a cure. The drug companies make their money from maintenance and long term treatments. If they ever came up with a cure they would suppress it. If everyone was cured and a vaccine were to come about they wuld soon be out of business. No there will never be a cure as long as there is money to be made.
I'm pretty sure that when you look at the overall numbers each and every one of us has a 45% chance of developing some sort of cancer in our lifetime and a 23% chance of dying from some type of cancer. Still not too encouraging.
Overall, It's good the deaths from most cancers is on the decrease. Good diet and exercise for a healthy body!
Glad to see something somewhat positive in regards to this deadly disease!
It's a shame that pancreatic cancer rates are increasing. What a devastating disease. And it's even more frustrating that many cases could be prevented through diet. (Powerful video about this here: )
And once again notice how obesity is blamed for cancer increases. Maybe we should be looking at how many of those cancer deaths were in people who were being treated with chemotherapy. 100% I suspect. You very rarely hear of someone dying from an undiagnosed cancer and in many people cancer is found after death but is not the cause of death.