Cancer Deaths:Stats

Over the last twenty years, more than one million deaths from cancer have been avoided, researchers reported in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Death rates for the most common cancers, including colon, breast, prostate and lung cancers have been dropping steadily year after year. However, some rarer cancers, such has kidney, thyroid, liver and pancreas cancers have seen death rates and total incidences rise.
The authors predict that:

• There will have been 1,638,910 new cancer diagnoses in 2012 in the USA
• There will have been 577,190 cancer deaths in 2012 in the USA
• From 1990 to 2008, overall death rates dropped by approximately 23% in adult males
• From 1990 to 2008, overall death rates dropped by about 15% in adult females
• These figures mean that over a million cancer deaths during that period were avoided