Cancer statistics, 2000

CA Cancer J Clin. 2000 Jan-Feb;50(1):7-33. doi: 10.3322/canjclin.50.1.7.

Abstract

The Surveillance Research Program of the American Cancer Society's Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research reports its annual compilation of estimated cancer incidence, mortality, and survival data for the United States in the year 2000. After 70 years of increases, the recorded number of total cancer deaths among men in the US declined for the first time from 1996 to 1997. This decrease in overall male mortality is the result of recent down-turns in lung and bronchus cancer deaths, prostate cancer deaths, and colon and rectum cancer deaths. Despite decreasing numbers of deaths from female breast cancer and colon and rectum cancer, mortality associated with lung and bronchus cancer among women continues to increase. Lung cancer is expected to account for 25% of all female cancer deaths in 2000. This report also includes a summary of global cancer mortality rates using data from the World Health Organization.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • American Cancer Society
  • Breast Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Breast Neoplasms / mortality
  • Bronchial Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Bronchial Neoplasms / mortality
  • Colonic Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Colonic Neoplasms / mortality
  • Female
  • Global Health
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Lung Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Lung Neoplasms / mortality
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasms / epidemiology*
  • Neoplasms / mortality
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / mortality
  • Rectal Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Rectal Neoplasms / mortality
  • SEER Program
  • Sex Factors
  • Survival Rate
  • United States / epidemiology
  • World Health Organization