What About Survival Rates?
How much have U.S. cancer mortality rates changed in the past five years, overall and among men and women?
According to the National Cancer Institute, the cancer mortality rate for American men and women of all ages declined 2.6 percent between 1991 and 1995, reversing an increase of 6.4 percent between 1971 and 1990.
How do mortality trends compare in younger and older men and women?
The cancer mortality rate for men of all ages declined 4.3 percent in the recent five-year period, in contrast to a 7.8 percent increase from 1971 to 1990. For men under age 65 the rate dropped 8.7 percent, while for men 65 and older it declined 2.1 percent.
How do the recent trends compare with trends in the previous 20 years?
For women of all ages, the cancer mortality rate dropped 1.1 percent in the recent five-year period, compared with a 6.9 percent increase during the earlier period. For women under age 65, the rate declined 6.5 percent, while for women 65 and older the rate rose 2.9 percent.
When statistics for men and women are combined, Americans under 65 years old had a 7.7 percent drop in mortality, compared with a 4.7 percent drop from 1971 to 1990, while those 65 and older had a rise of 0.6 percent, compared with a 15 percent rise from 1971 to 1990.
With information from the National Cancer Institute
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