Cancer Rates Decline
- Cancer Council Australia. (2015, July 15). Decline in cancer death rates welcome. Retrieved from http://www.cancer.org.au/news/media-releases/decline-in-cancer-death-rates-welcome-but-much-more-to-do-says-cancer-cCancer Council Australia's Director of Public Policy, Paul Grogan, said the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare projections were based on trends showing a steady decrease in cancer deaths since the late 1960s, with a steeper drop from the late 1990s.
- Siegel, R., Miller, K. & Jemal, A. (2016, January). Cancer death rate continues steady drop. DOI: 10. 3322/caac.21332Steady reductions in smoking combined with advances in cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment have resulted in a 23 percent drop in the cancer death rate since its peak in 1991 in the United States.
Status of Cancer
National Cancer Institute. (2015, December 11). Status of cancer: did you know? [Video File].
The Status of Cancer is an update on the rate of new cancer cases, deaths, and the most common cancers in the United States. Data from 1975 to 2012 provide trends in cancer rates among people from all racial and ethnic backgrounds combined. Watch this video to find out which cancers have declined, which have increased, and what steps can be taken to reduce the risk.
Stats and Facts
- Cancer Council Australia. (2016, February 1). Cancer in Australia. Retrieved from http://www.cancer.org.au/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/facts-and-figures.htmlAn estimated 130,470 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in Australia this year, with that number set to rise to 150,000 by 2020.
- World Health Organisation. (2015, February). Cancer key facts. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/Cancers figure among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with approximately 14 million new cases and 8.2 million cancer related deaths in 2012 (1).
- National Cancer Institute. (2012). Cancer stat fact sheet. Retrieved from http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/Cancer Stat Fact Sheets are a collection of statistical summaries for a number of common cancer types. They were developed to provide a quick overview of frequently-requested cancer statistics. Available statistics may include incidence, mortality, survival, stage, prevalence, and lifetime risk.
- Cancer Research UK. (2012). Worldwide cancer statistics. Retrieved from http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/worldwide-cancer-statisticsIn 2012, an estimated 14.1 million new cases of cancer occurred worldwide.
- SEER, (2015). Cancer statistics. Retrieved from http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/statisticsCancer statistics describe what happens in large groups of people and provide a picture in time of the burden of cancer on society. Statistics tell us things such as how many people are diagnosed with and die from cancer each year, the number of people who are currently living after a cancer diagnosis, the average age at diagnosis, and the numbers of people who are still alive at a given time after diagnosis. They also tell us about differences among groups defined by age, sex, racial/ethnic group, geographic location, and other categories.
- Harvard Reviews of Health News. (2007, May 11). Breast Cancer Rates Stay at Lower Level. Retrieved from http://galenet.galegroup.com.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/servlet/HWRC/hits?r=d&origSearch=true&rlt=1&o=&bucket=ref&n=10&l=d&searchTerm=2NTA&index=BA&basicSeU.S. breast cancer rates leveled off in 2004 after falling in 2003, a new report shows. The trend is thought to reflect a drop in the use of hormones after menopause. Millions of women quit taking them after a 2002 study was released. The study showed that the hormones raised the risk of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer.
- Cancer Rates and Trends. (2016). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/106118#323491.tocThe risk that an individual faces of developing and dying from cancer is expressed by incidence and mortality rates. (Incidence is the rate of occurrence per year of new cases, and the mortality rate is the number of deaths that occur per year in a particular population divided by the size of the population at that time.) Those figures are compiled by tumour registries in many different parts of the world.