Cancer statistics 2024: All hands on deck
Menée aux Etats-Unis, cette étude présente les projections de l'"American Cancer Society" en matière d'incidence des cancers et de mortalité spécifique pour l'année 2024
The 2024 update to Cancer Statistics from the American Cancer Society estimates that over 2,000,000 people this year will hear the words, “you have cancer.”1 This amounts to nearly 5500 people each day, or the equivalent to one person experiencing this every 15 seconds. This marks the first time incidence has eclipsed 2 million Americans, with more people being diagnosed at earlier stages of these diseases, when cure rates are the highest. Consequently, cancer mortality continues to decline, with an estimated 4.1 million lives saved since 1991, because of significant investments in research and screening by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Cancer Society, and others. To us, four parts of the report particularly stand out. First, historically, cancer has been a disease that disproportionally affects men. However, this report demonstrates that, whereas the cancer incidence in men has been stable since the 2013, the incidence in women has ticked up since the late 1990s, attributed to higher rates of breast and uterine corpus cancers and melanoma. Thus cancer is becoming more gender-indiscriminate, with a male-to-female incidence ratio of 1.14 (95% CI, 1.136–1.143) in all ages. Many have hypothesized that differential lifestyle and risk-taking behaviors, alongside environmental exposures, resulted in higher cancer rates in men. However, as the incidence gap between genders closes, signs may point to risk factors (e.g., obesity, sedentary lifestyle) that are similarly affecting both groups, highlighting the need for a better understanding of this phenomenon.