Reasons for these trends reflect changes among large groups of people in cancer risk factors and screening test use, as well as how doctors diagnose cancer and treatment advances.
The American Cancer Society, the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Cancer Institute work together to create the report, which has been published each year since 1998. It provides an update of new cancer rates, death rates, and trends in the United States, plus a special section, which this year focused on progress toward Healthy People 2020 goals.
The report was published March 12, 2020 in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Cancer Society.
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