National Cancer Institute Women's Health Report, Fiscal Years 2003-2004

摘要

Cancer continues to take a devastating toll on American women. In 2005, an estimated 662,870 women will have been diagnosed with cancer, and approximately 275,000 women will have died of the disease. Despite these grim statistics, our nation is making important progress in the fight against cancer overall and in women. Cancer incidence rates for all cancers in women have recently declined slightly. Mortality rates have decreased for all cancers combined in the general population, and for 8 of the top 15 cancers in women. Lung cancer death rates among women leveled off for the first time between 1995 and 2001, after increasing for many decades. Five-year cancer survival rates have improved since the late 1970s, although less significantly for women than for men.