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2024
Cancer Facts & Figures Cancer
2024--First
Year the US Expects More
than
2M New Cases of Cancer
Over the last 30 years, the risk of dying from cancer has
steadily declined,
sparing some 4 million lives in the United States. This
downward trend can
partially be explained by big wins in smoking cessation,
early cancer detection,
and treatment advancements.
Cancer incidence, however, is on the rise for many common
cancers.
In the coming year, we’re expecting to hit a bleak
milestone…
the first-time new cases of cancer in the US are expected
to cross the
2-million mark. That’s almost 5,500 cancer diagnoses a
day.
This trend is largely affected by the aging and growth of
the population
and by a rise in diagnoses of 6 of the 10 most common
cancers…
breast, prostate, endometrial, pancreatic, kidney, and
melanoma.
(The other 4 top 10 cancers are lung, colon and rectum,
bladder,
and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.)
In 2024, over 611,000 deaths from cancer are projected
for the US.
That’s more than 1,600 deaths from cancer each day.
Rising incidences of some of the most common cancers,
some that are related
to excess body weight, may halt the decline in cancer
mortality soon.
Although the cancer death rate has been on the decline,
rising diagnoses
of 6 of the most
common cancers
(breast, prostate, endometrial, pancreatic, kidney, and
melanoma) threaten that
longstanding downward trend. Put simply, that’s because
when more people are
diagnosed with cancer, more people are likely to die
because of cancer.
Some types of cancer aren’t increasing in overall
incidence but are increasing in
subgroups.
These include…
Colorectal cancer in people younger than age 55
Liver cancer in women
Oral cancers associated with HPV
Cervical cancer in women ages 30 through 44
Although there aren't ways to detect most cancers early,
four of the cancers with
increasing trends have screening tests (breast, prostate, colorectal,
and cervical).
Colorectal and cervical cancer screening can actually prevent
cancer altogether by
detecting precancerous lesions that can be removed.
The risk of developing 6 of the cancers on the rise is
associated with excess body
weight. Listed in order of strength of the association,
those 6 cancers are
endometrial, liver, kidney, pancreas, colorectal, and breast.
What might be most striking about the rising incidence is
that it’s affecting
Increasingly younger people.
Cancer patients are getting younger.
Cancer risk increases with age, and people most likely to
be diagnosed with cancer
are adults age 65 and older. But this trend is beginning
to change.
People age 65 and older (sometimes referred to as older
adults) represent a growing
proportion of the overall population, but their numbers
are shrinking in the proportion
of new cancer cases. In 1995, people age 65 and older
accounted for 61% of cancer
diagnoses and during 2019 to 2020 their contribution
dropped to 58%.
In contrast, people ages 50 to 64 (sometimes referred to
as middle-aged adults) are
growing in numbers for both the population at large and
the population of people with
cancer. This shift toward middle-aged patients reflects
both steep decreases in the
incidence of prostate cancer and smoking-related cancers
in older men and increasing
incidence in men and women born since the 1950s. Although
some of this increase is
probably because of the obesity epidemic, there are thought to be other
unknown
causes as well.
The proportion of people under age 50 (sometimes referred
to as younger adults)
diagnosed with cancer dropped from 15% to 12% because of
their shrinking
representation in the general population (from 74% to
64%). Interestingly, though,
they were the only one of the three age groups with an
increase in overall cancer
incidence from 1995 to 2020.
Especially notable is the rise in colorectal cancer
diagnoses among people
Younger than 50. In the late 1990s,
colorectal cancer was the fourth leading cause
of cancer death in both men and women in this age group,
and now, it is the first
cause of cancer death in men younger than 50 and the
second cause in women
that age.
The cause of the rise of colorectal cancer cases in
younger adults remains
Unexplained but likely reflects changes in lifestyle
exposures that begin with
generations born around 1950, the authors say.
Almost 1 out of 3 people diagnosed with colorectal cancer
before age 50 have a
Family history or genetic predisposition. People who know
they have a family
History of this disease should begin colorectal cancer screening before age 45.
Cervical cancer is increasing in incidence in an even
younger population…
women ages 30 to 44. (In
contrast, the incidence of cervical cancer in women who
were among the first groups to have received the HPV vaccine…
who are now ages 20 to 24 declined 11% a year between
2012 and 2019.)
Progress against cancer lags in communities of color.
Racial disparities in cancer are striking and
persistent. In fact, the death rate for
Black people with prostate, stomach, and uterine cancers
is double that for White
people. Similarly, American Indian and Alaska Native
(AIAN) people have 2 times
higher death rates for liver, stomach, or kidney cancer
than White people.
These are a few more critical statistics about cancer and
race:
Black men have the highest overall cancer death rate,
which is 19% higher than
that of White men. This difference is largely driven by
prostate cancer death rates for
Black men, which are twice that of any other group.
AIAN people have the highest overall incidence and
mortality rate in men and women
combined. Alaska Native people have the highest
colorectal cancer incidence and
mortality in the world.
Hispanic people have lower rates of the most common
cancers, such as breast and
prostate, compared to non-Hispanic Whites, but they
have one of the highest rates
of infection-related cancers. For example, cervical
cancer incidence…
caused by HPV infection… is 35% higher in Hispanic women
than in White women.
Black women with endometrial cancer have a death rate
that is 2 times higher than
White women despite similar incidence of the disease,
partly because they are
diagnosed later and have worse survival.
The advances in treatment and earlier detection that have
decreased death rates
overall, have not benefitted everyone equally. The
obstacles to living a healthy life
and getting a timely cancer diagnosis are far greater in
minority communities than
in White communities.
“These populations have been subject to racial
discrimination for hundreds of years.
The resulting inequality in wealth has resulted in less
access to fresh food, safe
places to live and exercise, and receipt of high-quality
cancer prevention, early
detection, and treatment,” Siegel says.
The Cancer Statistics, 2024 study authors note,
“Segregationist and discriminatory
policies in criminal justice, housing, education, and
employment continue to alter the
balance of prosperity even today.”
Written by: Sonya Collins
https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/facts-and-figures-2024.html
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