40 Years of Change in Age- and Stage-Specific Cancer Incidence Rates in US Women and Men.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies have documented a temporal increase in incidence for several cancers in US young adults aged 25 to 39-years, including noncardia gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, and distant-stage breast cancer. To further characterize trends in young adults, we assessed age-specific and stage-specific incidence trends from 1975 to 2015, overall (all malignant cancers combined), and for 18 and 16 cancer sites in women and men, respectively.

Methods

We used US population-based data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program to obtain overall and site-specific cancer incidence rates by sex and age group. We individually analyzed cancer sites with an incidence rate of at least 5 per 100 000 in 2015, accounting for greater than 90% of all cancer diagnoses.

SUBMITTER: Kehm RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686848 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature