Cancer statistics, 2025

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in the United States and compiles the most recent data on population-based cancer occurrence and outcomes using incidence data collected by central cancer registries (through 2021) and mortality data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics (through 2022). In summary, cancer mortality continues to decline, but future gains are threatened by rampant racial inequalities and a growing burden of...

🔑 Key Findings

• In 2025, 2,041,910 new cancer cases and 618,120 cancer deaths are projected to occur in the United States.
• The cancer mortality rate continued to decline through 2022, averting nearly 4.5 million deaths since 1991 because of smoking reductions, earlier detection for some cancers, and improved treatment.
• Yet alarming disparities persist; Native American people bear the highest cancer mortality, including rates that are two to three times those in White people for kidney, liver, stomach, and cervical cancers.

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