Men historically have had a higher overall cancer incidence than women, but in 2021, women younger than 50 in the United States had an 82% higher cancer incidence rate than their male peers ...

The ACS report, published Thursday, includes statistics based on mortality data through 2022 and cancer incidence data through 2021, which are the most recent years with compiled data available to ...

Share on Pinterest While overall cancer deaths are declining, a new report shows that cancer incidence is increasing in females and young people. Mariano Garcia Gaspar/Getty Images A new report ...

As the cancer mortality rate continues to fall, incidence rates in the U.S. have increased at varying degrees across demographics and state lines, according to the American Cancer Society's annual ...

ACS researchers compiled data from central cancer registries and from the National Center for Health Statistics. "Continued reductions in cancer mortality because of drops in smoking, better ...

The cancer death rate declined by more than one-third over a three-decade period in the United States, though incidence rates for many types of cancer are rising in women and young adults ...

However, Siegel and colleagues noted that progress is lagging in cancer prevention, as incidence rates continue to increase for several cancers, including melanoma, prostate cancer, breast cancer ...

The cancer mortality rate dropped by 34% from 1991 to 2022. This saved about 4.5 million lives. Still, incidence rates in women between ages 50 and 64 have surpassed men, and rates in women under ...

Cancer incidence in children (14 years of age and younger) declined in recent years after decades of increase but continued to rise among adolescents (ages 15-19 years).

Among those younger than 65 years, lung cancer incidence was higher in women than in men in 2021 for the first time ever, the study shows. 2,041,910. That's how many cancer diagnoses are expected ...

Between 2012 and 2021, the incidence rate of breast cancer overall increased by about 1 percent each year, while the incidence rate among women under age 50 increased by about 1.4 percent each year.