The rate cancer incidence and mortality — including breast cancer — has continued to decline, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2011.
The report is updated annually by the American Cancer Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Cancer Institute and North American Association of Central Cancer Registries.
The most recent report includes a focus on breast cancer incidence by subtype using new, national-level data.
Highlighted below are several findings from the report.
- Overall cancer incidence decreased for men by 1.8 percent annually from 2007 to 2011, whereas overall rates for women were stable from 1998 to 2011.
- Cancer incidence rates experienced some racial and ethnic variation, with some cancer sites having increasing incidence rates.
- Among children, cancer incidence rates continued to increase by 0.8 percent every year over the past decade, although mortality declined.
- HR+/HER2- breast cancers — the subtype with the best prognosis — were the most common among all races and ethnicities, with highest rates among non-Hispanic white women, local stage cases and low poverty areas.
- The breast cancer incidence rates of this subtype were strongly positively correlated with mammography use, specifically among non-Hispanic white women.
- Triple-negative breast cancers — the subtype with the worst prognosis — were highest among non-Hispanic black women, reflecting high rates in the southeastern states.
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