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Release of Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer 2007

Release of Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer 1975-2004, Featuring Cancer in American Indians and Alaska Natives

A new report reveals that cancer mortality rates decreased on average 2.1 percent per year from 2002 to 2004, nearly twice the annual decrease of 1.1 percent per year from 1993 to 2002. The report shows a continuing decline in cancer death rates and highlights a special section on cancer burden in the American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

 The study was led by David Espey, MD, an epidemiologist in CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control assigned to the Indian Health Service's Division of Epidemiology, in collaboration with scientists at the American Cancer Society (ACS), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), the Indian Health Service, and the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.

 Notable findings include:

  • Death rates decreased for the majority of the top 15 cancers in men and women.
  • Important declines were noted for the three leading causes of cancer deaths in men: lung, prostate, and colorectal.
  • In women, deaths rates from colorectal cancer and breast cancer decreased, and the rate of increase of lung cancer deaths slowed substantially.
  • Cancer incidence rates among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) men and women varied two-fold among six geographic regions in the United States.
  • While the top three cancers for men and women are the same for the AI/AN and the non-Hispanic white (NHW) populations, critical differences by region and cancer type were observed.

 The Annual Report to the Nation is available online (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer/report2007) and will be published in the November 15, 2007 issue of the journal Cancer.

 For more information about the collaborators, please visit:

 CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control: http://www.cdc.gov/cancer

ACS: http://www.cancer.org

NAACCR: http://www.naaccr.org

NCI: http://www.cancer.govand SEER: http://www.seer.cancer.gov


Articles provided by various authors affiliated with the Monmouth Cancer Coalition.