"U.S. Cancer Deaths Continue To Decline" - Cassie Homer
Cancer deaths continue to decline among men, women and children in the United States, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. Deaths due to malignancy also have decreased among all major racial and ethnic groups, according to the report, a collaboration between the CDC, NCI, American Cancer Society and North American Association of Central Cancer Registries. Between 2007 and 2014, overall prostate cancer incidence rates declined an average of 6.5 percent per year. However, incidence of distant-stage disease increased from a low of 7.8 cases per 100,000 in 2010 to 9.2 cases per 100,000 in 2014. “The slight increase in late-stage prostate cancer incidence comes following a time when changes were made to PSA screening guidelines, which resulted in fewer men being screened,” said Bobby Liaw, MD, assistant professor of medicine, hematology and medical oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “However, as screening guidelines have again changed recently, allowing physicians to individualize the decision to screen men based on their personal and familial risks, going forward we expect to see prostate cancer cases being caught at earlier stages, hopefully leading to a reciprocal decrease in new incident cases of advanced-stage disease.”
- Paolo Boffetta, MD, Professor, Medicine, Oncological Sciences, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Associate Director, Population Sciences, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Bobby Liaw, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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