Cancer Epidemiology

American Cancer Society releases annual cancer estimates

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 25th, 2003

Newly compiled data from the American Cancer Society finds even as death rates from several major cancers continue to decline, an aging population will produce a slight rise in the total number of cancer deaths in 2003.

The Society's 51st annual Cancer Facts & Figures shows death rates are down for the top four cancer killers: cancers of the lung, breast, colon, and prostate. But more Americans than ever, 1.33 million, will be diagnosed with cancer in 2003, and more than half a million will die of the disease.

Since 1952, the Society's team of epidemiologists has compiled and analyzed the latest incidence data to estimate the number of cancer cases...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-03-25)

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