However, death rates for populations in lower socioeconomic groups showed little or no decrease and actually had a small increase in some instances, the report said.
The ACS report also estimates that there will be 1.6 million new cancer cases for 2011. Lung and bronchus cancers are still the most common in both men and women, according to 2007 statistics. Breast and colon/rectum cancers are the other two most common for women, while prostate and colon/rectum cancers are the other two most common for men.
Read the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts and Figures 2011 (pdf).
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