Cancer death rates in the United States fell 2.4 percent in 2018, setting a record for the second consecutive year and contributing to a 31 percent drop since 1990, the American Cancer Society said Tuesday. announced.
The organization has linked the progress – which amounts to about 3.2 million fewer deaths – to less smoking and continuous progress in the treatment of lung cancer, which accounts for almost 50% of the total decline in deaths from 2014 to 2018.
The total cancer death rate among men and women in 2018 was 149 cases per 100,000 people.
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“Improved treatment has accelerated the progression of lung cancer and caused a record drop in overall cancer deaths, despite slowing the momentum for other common cancers,” reads a report published Tuesday in the CA, A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. .
Cancer is the second leading cause of death from heart disease, though it is still the biggest threat among Hispanic, Asian Americans and Native Americans, according to the report.
The American Cancer Society predicted 608,570 cancer deaths in 2021, with nearly 1.9 million new diagnoses, or 5,200 new cases per day. However, these estimates did not take into account the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as interruptions in performances and care.
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“The impact of COVID-19 on cancer diagnoses and outcomes at the population level will be unknown for several years due to the time required for data collection, compilation, quality control and dissemination,” said Rebecca Siegel, lead author, in a statement said. . “We anticipate that disruptions in access to cancer care in 2020 will lead to an increase in downstream diagnoses that could hamper progress in reducing cancer mortality rates in the coming years.
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Dr. William Cance, chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, expressed concern about ‘persistent racial, socio-economic and geographical differences’ for preventable cancers.
“There is an ongoing need for greater investment in equitable cancer control interventions and clinical research to create more advanced treatment options to accelerate progress in the fight against cancer,” Cance said.
According to the report, “the survival rates are lower for black patients than for whites for every type of cancer except pancreas and kidneys, for which they are the same.”
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It is noteworthy that colorectal cancer surpassed leukemia in 2018 as one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among younger men aged 20 to 39 years.
By 2021, prostate cancer is expected to make up the largest percentage of new diagnoses among men, at 26% (or about 248,000 cases). Among women, breast cancer is estimated to account for 30% of new diagnoses, with lung and colon cancer following next for both sexes at 12% and 8%, respectively.