Greenlee R T, Hill-Harmon M B, Murray T, Thun M
Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA.
CA Cancer J Clin. 2001 Jan-Feb;51(1):15-36. doi: 10.3322/canjclin.51.1.15.
Each year the American Cancer Society compiles estimates of the number of new cancer cases and deaths expected in the US in the current year and the most recent data on cancer incidence, mortality, and survival. An estimated 1,268,000 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the year 2001 and an estimated 553,400 Americans will die from cancer. Overall cancer incidence and death rates have continued to decrease in men and women since the early 1990s, and the decline in overall cancer mortality has been greater in recent years. Despite reductions in age-adjusted rates of cancer death, the total number of recorded cancer deaths in the US continues to increase, due to an aging and expanding population. Large disparities in cancer incidence and mortality across racial/ethnic groups continue. Black men and women experience higher incidence of cancer and poorer survival than white men and women. The disparity in survival reflects both diagnosis of cancer at later disease stages, and poorer survival within each stage of diagnosis.
美国癌症协会每年都会汇编美国当年预计的新增癌症病例数和死亡人数，以及有关癌症发病率、死亡率和生存率的最新数据。2001年预计将诊断出126.8万例新癌症病例，预计55.34万美国人将死于癌症。自20世纪90年代初以来，男性和女性的总体癌症发病率和死亡率持续下降，近年来总体癌症死亡率的下降幅度更大。尽管年龄调整后的癌症死亡率有所下降，但由于人口老龄化和人口增长，美国记录的癌症死亡总数仍在继续增加。不同种族/族裔群体在癌症发病率和死亡率方面仍存在巨大差异。黑人男性和女性比白人男性和女性患癌症的几率更高，生存率更低。生存率的差异既反映了癌症在疾病晚期的诊断情况，也反映了每个诊断阶段较差的生存率。
