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My name is Edgar Simard
and I'm a senior epidemiologist in the Surveillance Research Program at the
American Cancer Society.
The annual report to the nation on the status of cancer is published every year
by a group of leading cancer surveillance scientists.
at the American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention,
the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Association of Central
Cancer Registries.
The major finding from this year's annual report
is that the overall cancer death rates continue to decline.
A change that was first noted in the early nineteen nineties
This decline was noted for men and women of every racial and ethnic group.
We contribute a large proportion of the decline in the overall
cancer death rate
to declines in the most common cancer such as
reductions in lung cancer mortality due to decreases in tobacco consumption.
As well as reductions in breast and colorectal cancer death rates
due to increased screening and improve treatments.
So we have seen progress in many cancers. However, during the most recent
time period for which we have available data,
that is 2000 through 2009, we've
documented increases in the death rates for pancreas and liver cancers among
both men and women
as well as melanoma of the skin among man and uterine cancer among women.
A special section of this year's annual report to the nation
is focused on evaluating incidence trends for human papillomavirus
or HPV associated cancers as well trends in HPV vaccination coverage
levels.
During 2003 2009, we found that the incidents have some HPV associated
cancers
increased. For example, cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx
incidence rates increased among white men and women.
And *** cancer incidence rates increased among
white and black men and women. This is in contrast to cervical cancer incidence
rates
that have continued to decline among virtually all women.
This report demonstrates continued progress
and cancer prevention and control as demonstrated by
the declining cancer death rates. And we can achieve even greater progress
in declining cancer death rates by
applying what we know in terms of cancer prevention and control
to even more people in the United States.