The American Cancer Society has rel...

The American Cancer Society has released its annual report onward cancer incidence, mortality, and survival rates. "Cancer Statistics, 2004" was published in the January/February 2004 issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians and is available online at: http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/cgi/content/full/54/1/8.

Approximately 137 million modern cancer cases and 564,000 cancer-related deaths are rely uponed in the United States in 2004 Incidence rates in men stabilized from 1995 from one side 2000, but rates in women continue to increase according to 0.4 percent per year. Mortality rates in men have decreased at 1.5 percent per year since 1992 if it be not that rates in women have stabilized.

Cancer mortality rates continue to decrease from the three major cancer sites in men (i.e., lung and bronchus, colon and rectum and prostate), and from breast and colorectal cancers in women

Compared with white men and women black men and women have 40 percent and 20 percent higher mortality rates, respectively, from all cancers combined. Cancer incidence and mortality rates are lower in other racial and ethnic form into groupss than in whites and blacks for all sites combined. However, minority populations are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced-stage disease.

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