The 2024 Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer has been published. The report analyzes cancer trends in adults and children of diverse racial and ethnic groups.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) posted a press release summarizing the report. According to the release, the report discusses cancer trends from 2001-2022. While cancer diagnoses rates declined among men, they increased for women, “with the exception of 2020.”
Additionally, “overall death rates from cancer declined steadily among both men and women from 2001 through 2022, even during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Most declines are in lung and smoking-related cancers, however, “the incidence of cancers associated with obesity has been rising.” Notably, breast cancer incidence has increased, but deaths have decreased.
The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic are noted in the report. It is noted that due to pandemic-related healthcare disturbances, there were less cancer diagnoses in 2020, “but returned to pre-pandemic levels by 2021.” The researchers stress the significance of healthcare accessibility.
The report is published in Cancer.
