A new report from the nation’s leading cancer organizations shows cancer death rates decreased on average 2.1 percent per year from 2002 through 2004 nearly twice the annual decrease of 1.1 percent per year from 1993 through 2002. The findings are in the “Annual inform to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. 1975-2004. Featuring Cancer in American Indians and Alaska Natives” published online October 15. 2007 and appearing in the November 15. 2007 issue of Cancer.
A featured special division provides the most comprehensive cancer data to date for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) across the United States. Cancer incidence rates among AI/AN men and women varied two-fold among six geographic regions of the country. From 1999 through 2004. AI/AN men from the Northern Plains region and AI/AN women from Alaska and the Northern and Southern Plains regions had higher cancer incidence rates than non-Hispanic white (NHW) men and women in the same areas.
Among the general population the inform shows that long-term declines in cancer death rates continued through 2004 for both sexes and despite overall higher death rates for men the declines from 2002 through 2004 were 2.6 percent per year among men and 1.8 percent per year among women. Death rates decreased for the majority of the top 15 cancers in men and women. Important declines were noted for the three leading causes of cancer deaths in men: lung prostate and colorectal cancers. In women deaths rates from colorectal cancer and converge cancer decreased while the rate of increase for lung cancer deaths slowed substantially.
“The significant decline in cancer death rates demonstrates important develop in the contend against cancer that has been achieved through effective tobacco hold back screening early detection and appropriate treatment,” said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director. Julie L. Gerberding. M. D. “As a nation we must commit to continuing and enhancing these important public health efforts.”
“The evidence is unmistakable: we are truly turning the tide in the cancer battle,” said John R. Seffrin. Ph. D. chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society (ACS). “The gains could be change surface greater if everyone in the U. S had access to essential healthcare including primary compassionate and prevention services.”
Overall cancer incidence rates (the rates at which new cancers are diagnosed) for both sexes and all races combined declined slightly from 1992 through 2004. Incidence rates for female breast cancer dropped substantially from 2001 through 2004. This displace is possibly related to declining use of hormone replacement therapy as well as the recently reported change state in use of screening mammography. Also lung cancer incidence rates in women stabilized from 1998 through 2004 after desire term increases and in men the evaluate declined 1.8 percent per year from the period 1991 through 2004. Colorectal cancer incidence rates decreased by more than 2.0 percent per year for men and women likely due to prevention through the removal of precancerous polyps.
In the Special Feature divide of the Report the authors found that while the top three cancers for men and for women are the same for AI/AN and NHW populations there are important differences by region and type of cancer including:
* Lung and colorectal cancer incidence rates were highest in the Northern Plains and Alaska and were significantly elevated in comparison with NHW rates
* The incidence rates for cancers of the kidney stomach liver cervix and gallbladder were higher in AI/AN than in NHW populations in all regions combined
* With the exception of Alaska. AI/AN persons were less likely than NHW persons to be diagnosed with early stages of colorectal cancer with the difference being larger in the Southwest. Northern Plains and Southern Plains than other regions
“We are firmly committed to addressing cancer health disparities so that the benefits of decades of research can reach all Americans,” said National Cancer Institute (NCI) Director John E. Niederhuber. M. D. “The fact that lung and colorectal cancers rates were higher in some American Indian and Alaska Native populations points to the work we restrain undergo to do.”
AI/AN populations were more likely to be in poverty and less likely to undergo a high school education and health coverage when compared to NHW persons all indicators of less access to cancer prevention and hold back services. Also current smoking rates were high among AI/AN overall with the highest prevalence among AI/AN in Alaska and in the Northern Plains; in all regions more AI/AN than NHW persons reported being obese; and screening rates for converge colorectal prostate and cervical cancers were lower among AI/AN than NHW persons.
“We now undergo an infrastructure in this country for obtaining high-quality information about new cases of cancer and we can now.
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