The Study
Cancer statistics, 2025
This study is like a big photo album showing cancer patterns in America. It tells us what types of cancer are common and who gets them, but it can't prove why people get cancer or what prevents it.
Analysis score
Maximum 44 for a cross-sectional study.
Where the score came from
This study counts how many people get and die from cancer each year in America.
Where does this study sit?
Reviews of RCTs (Meta-analyses)
Max 100Randomized Trials
Max 90Reviews of Cohort Studies
Max 85Cohort Studies
Max 72Reviews of Case-Control Studies
Max 63Case-Control Studies
Max 58Cross-Sectional & Case Series
Max 50Expert Opinion
Max 539 / 100
Quality score
Snapshots of a population at a single point in time, or descriptions of small groups. Can identify correlations and prevalence, but cannot determine cause and effect.
Key takeaways
Summary
Based on the study abstract and findings.
- 1Yes, these numbers show both progress in cancer treatment/prevention and serious inequality in who suffers most.
- 2Fewer people are dying from cancer now than before (34% drop since 1991), but some groups get sick more often - Native Americans die 2-3x more from some cancers, and younger women get cancer 82% more than younger men.
Score breakdown, methodology, conflicts of interest, evidence analysis & raw study data
Publication
Journal
Ca
Year
2025
Authors
R. Siegel, Tyler B Kratzer, Angela N Giaquinto, Hyuna Sung, A. Jemal
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Claims (5)
Native Americans are more likely to die from certain cancers compared to other groups, with death rates from kidney, liver, stomach, and cervical cancers being two to three times higher than those of White people in the US.
This means that for people under 50, women get cancer more often than men—about 82% more often. This is mostly because breast and thyroid cancers are becoming more common in women, while cancer rates in men have actually gone down a little bit.
Fewer people in the U.S. are dying from cancer now than in the past, mainly because fewer people smoke, cancer is caught earlier, and treatments have gotten better.
For the first time in 2021, more women under 65 got lung cancer than men under 65, likely because women started smoking later and had a harder time quitting compared to men.
Uterine cancer deaths have been rising each year, and Black women are much less likely to survive it than White women, showing the biggest gap in survival between races for any common cancer.
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