Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: CANCER Gaps in decreasing mortalityAn estimated 618,120 people will die of cancer in 2025; this represents approximately 1700 deaths per day.Smoking continues to be the leading cause: It accounts for nearly 500 deaths each day, mainly because of lung cancer, which causes nearly 2.5 times more deaths than the second most common cancer, colorectal, and the third most common cancer, pancreatic.Although lung cancer deaths continue to decline overallwith a 61% drop among men from the peak death rate in 1990 and a 38% drop among women from the peak in 2002, as well as more recent accelerated declines since 2013 and 2014 of up to 5% per year in men and up to 4% per year in women due to early detection and improved treatments-the burden still remains high, with most cases (43%) diagnosed at a late stage and with screening rates remaining low.Colorectal cancer also has seen sustained reductions due to screening, improved treatment, and changes in risk factors such as declines in smoking.However, the incidence of pancreatic cancer has gradually increased.Rebecca L. Siegel, MPH, senior scientific director of Cancer Surveillance Research at the American Cancer Society and lead author of the study, cites the lagging progress for pancreatic cancer as one of the key areas of opportunity, as median survival remains less than 1 year.In the 1930s, mortality from pancreatic cancer was approximately 5 per 100,000 for both men and women, whereas today it is 13 per 100,000 for men and 10 per 100,000 for women.Another big gap in progress, cites Ms. Siegel, is the uneven progress in survival by ethnicity."Alarming inequalities in cancer rates persist," she says.As an example, she cites mortality rates among Native Americans and Black women."Native Americans are more than
Source: Cancer
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.35827
Author: Mary Beth Nierengarten
Language: English
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409946139