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Cancer Trends 2005
New Cancer Report Sees Declining Deaths,
Stable Incident Rates
Dec. 23, 2005 – The nation is making progress
toward major cancer-related Healthy People 2010 targets, according to
the new Cancer Trends Progress Report 2005. The death rates continue to
decline for the four most common cancers - prostate, breast, lung, and
colorectal, as well as for all cancers combined. And, the rate of cancer
occurrences has been relatively stable since the mid 1990s.
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the
National Institutes of Health, yesterday released Cancer Trends Progress
Report: 2005 Update. The report summarizes the nation’s progress against
cancer in relation to the Healthy People 2010 targets developed by the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
This online report, first issued in 2001 as the
Cancer Progress Report, is released every other year. The revised and
expanded report is intended for policy makers, researchers, clinicians,
and public health service providers, offering updated national trends
data and a variety of new features.
New additions to this year’s report include:
● Quick tutorial to make navigation and
downloading of materials within the report as simple as possible
● Prevention measures: e.g., “Doctors’ and Dentists’ Advice to Quit
Smoking”; “Pesticides”; and “Dioxins”
● Treatment measures: “Breast Cancer Treatment” and “Colorectal
Cancer Treatment”
● Updated “Trends-at-a-Glance” snapshot
● Links to state- and county-level data
● Data, graphs, and slides that are easy to download
● Links to Healthy People 2010 materials
● Custom report features
● Open text search capability
● Fully accessible to persons with disabilities
Major Conclusions
The nation is making progress toward major
cancer-related Healthy People 2010 targets.
● Death rates for the four most common cancers
(prostate, breast, lung, and colorectal), as well as for all cancers
combined, continue to decline.
● The rate of cancer incidence has been
relatively stable since the mid 1990s.
● Some prevention behaviors have shown
improvement. Adult smoking is down dramatically since the 1960s,
although rates fell only slightly in the 1990s. Alcohol and fat
consumption are headed down, while fruit and vegetable consumption is up
only slightly since about 1990.
● Youth smoking was on the rise during much of
the 1990s, but has shown declines since 1997.
● The use of screening tests for breast and
cervical cancers is high and remained stable between 2000 and 2003.
Screening for colorectal cancer remains low, despite its proven
effectiveness, though use is increasing.
● People are doing slightly more to protect
themselves from the sun.
The nation is losing ground in other important
areas that demand attention.
● The incidence of cancers of the breast in
women and of prostate and testis in men, as well as leukemia,
non-Hodgkin lymphoma, myeloma, melanoma of skin, and cancers of the
thyroid, kidney, and esophagus is rising.
● Lung cancer death rates in women continue to
rise, but not as rapidly as before.
● More people are overweight and obese, and
leisure time physical activity is increasing only slightly.
● Cancer treatment spending continues to rise
along with total health care spending.
● Unexplained cancer-related health disparities
remain among population subgroups. For example, Blacks and people with
low socioeconomic status have the highest rates of both new cancers and
cancer deaths.
The Cancer Trends Progress Report: 2005 Update can
be viewed online at
http://progressreport.cancer.gov/.
Trends-at-a-Glance
The Trends-at-a-Glance offers an overview of trend
direction measure by measure. Trends shown in green are moving in a
favorable direction, while trends shown in red italics are moving in an
unfavorable direction. Trends noted as stable are not changing
significantly. Click on any trend to view the figure associated with
that measure.
The table below gives a snapshot of the latest
trend in all measures included in this report. For a more complete
summary of the measures, including their progress compared with the
Healthy People 2010 target, see the
summary tables by topic.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The
Nation's Medical Research Agency — includes 27 Institutes and Centers
and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.
It is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting basic,
clinical, and translational medical research, and it investigates the
causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For
more information about NIH and its programs, visit
http://www.nih.gov.
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