The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer reveals a decline in cancer death rates from 2001 to 2022 for both genders, a trend that persisted even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lung cancer and smoking-related cancers have significantly contributed to this decline. Conversely, certain obesity-related cancers showed rising incidence rates. Notably, while breast cancer diagnoses increased, the death rate from this cancer decreased. Cancer deaths among children fell steadily, but the decline for young adults has recently stabilized. The disparities among racial and ethnic groups in cancer incidence are also highlighted.
Progress in reducing cancer deaths overall is largely the result of declines in both incidence and death rates for lung cancer and several other smoking-related cancers.
Cancer death rates in children declined steadily over the study period; those for adolescents and young adults also declined until recently, when the decline slowed and stabilized.
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