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Cancer Trends Progress Report – 2011/2012 Update

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Director's Message
Report Highlights
Introduction
Trends-at-a-Glance
Summary Tables
Prevention
Smoking
Clinicians’ Advice to Quit Smoking
Medicaid Coverage of Tobacco Dependence Treatments
Diet
Weight and Physical Activity
Sun Protection
Secondhand Smoke
Chemical Exposures
Tobacco Company Marketing Expenditures
Early Detection
Breast and Cervical Cancers
Colorectal Cancer
Diagnosis
Treatment
Bladder, Breast, Colorectal
Kidney, Lung, Ovarian, Prostate
Life After Cancer
End of Life
Prevention
Early Detection
Diagnosis
Treatment
Life After Cancer
End of Life


Summary Table: End of Life

Only one measure per topic is displayed in the summary table. A complete set of measures, where they exist, can be found in the report.

Trend key: green - headed in the right direction
  red - headed in the wrong direction
  black - stable or non-significant change (NSC)
  blue - Healthy People 2020 target


  Mortality
1975–2008

Person-years of
life lost (PYLL)
2008

Measure The number of cancer deaths per 100,000 people per year, age-adjusted to a U.S. 2000 standard population. The difference between the actual age stemming from the disease/cause and the expected age of death.
Recent summary trend*
Falling
2004–2008
No trend data are available for person-years of life lost.
Desired direction
Falling 
Falling 
Trend

Rising, then stable, then falling, then NSC, then falling

No trend data are available for person-years of life lost.

(No trend graph is available for this measure)

Most recent estimate In 2008, the death rate for all cancers was 175.7 cancer deaths per 100,000 people. In 2008, cancer deaths were responsible for more than 8.7 million PYLL, which is more than heart disease and all other causes of death combined. About 51 percent of the PYLL caused by cancer death occurred among women. The number of PYLL from causes other than cancer varied by gender, with more accidental deaths and suicides among men and more cerebrovascular and chronic lung disease-related deaths among women.
Healthy People 2020 target Reduce the overall cancer death rate to 160.6 cancer deaths per 100,000 people per year. There is no Healthy People 2020 target for PYLL.
More information Mortality Person-years of Life Lost

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* Summary trend (generally 5 most recent years) as characterized by the Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC).

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