Cancer Incidence and Mortality Through 2020

MULTIMEDIA — Volume 13 — April 7, 2016

Hannah K. Weir, PhD; Mary C White, PhD

Suggested citation for this article: Weir HK, White MC. Cancer Incidence and Mortality Through 2020. Prev Chronic Dis 2016;13:160024. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd13.160024.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist Dr Hannah Weir talks about her work to predict cancer incidence and mortality through 2020. Her predictions are based on population projections from the US Census Bureau and on national cancer surveillance data from the National Program of Cancer Registries and the National Vital Statistics System. Projections were calculated by using age–period–cohort regression models. Although cancer rates are decreasing or stabilizing, cancer incidence and mortality will continue to rise (1,2). The public health community needs to do more to address these increases by reducing the number of people who get cancer through prevention and by reducing the number of people who die of cancer through early detection and treatment. Results of this work were previously published in both Preventing Chronic Disease and Cancer. Run time: 05:12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJp4IfboItw

Acknowledgments

The following staff members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention participated in the production of this video: Janine Cory, MPH, executive producer; Erin Garnett, MPH, producer; Jim Gilson, media analyst; Nick Degner, design and animation; and Tom Race, audio.

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Author Information

Corresponding Author: Hannah K.Weir, PhD, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Building 107, Mail Stop F-76, Atlanta, GA 30341. Telephone: 770-488-3006. Email: hbw4@cdc.gov.

Author Affiliation: Mary C. White, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.

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References

1. Weir HK, Thompson TD, Soman A, Møller B, Leadbetter S, White MC. Meeting the Healthy People 2020 objectives to reduce cancer mortality. Prev Chronic Dis 2015;12:E104. CrossRefPubMed
2. Weir HK, Thompson TD, Soman A, Møller B, Leadbetter S. The past, present, and future of cancer incidence in the United States: 1975 through 2020. Cancer 2015;121(11):1827–37.CrossRef PubMed

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