Cancer Statistics 2023
2 August 2023
Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the number of new US cancer cases and deaths. For 2023, it projects 1,958,310 new cancer cases and 609,820 cancer deaths. As noted in the graph below, the number of deaths has not changed substantially for many years, which represents progress because the US population is increasing and getting older, and cancer is associated with aging.
The graphs below show that the age adjusted cancer death rate (bottom 3 lines) has been declining by 33% overall since 1991 for an estimated 3.8 million deaths averted. This reduced cancer death rate reflects advances in treatment, particularly for leukemia, melanoma and kidney cancer and accelerated declines for lung cancer due to reductions in tobacco use.
Some highlights of the report are:
Lung cancer incidence decreased from 2015 to 2019 by 1.1% in women and by 2.6% in men.
Cervical cancer cases dropped 65% from 2012 through 2019 among women in their early 20s, likely due to the use of the HPV vaccine.
Cancer incidence increased by 3% annually for prostate cancer from 2014 through 2019 after two decades of decline. The incidence also increased for cancer of the breast, liver and uterus and melanoma.
The full report is here.
Other interesting information (National Cancer Institute):
Approximately 40.5 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetime, based on 2017–2019 data.
In 2020, an estimated 17,113,494 people were living with cancer in the United States.
The 5 year relative survival for cancer is 68.7%. Relative survival is an estimate of the percentage of patients expected to survive their cancer, excluding the risk of dying from other causes. Of course, it is intended to apply to a large group of people and cannot predict the outcome for any particular patient.
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