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Summary

Overall, cancer incidence rates have been decreasing since 2001 in men and women, and for all races/ethnicities. For women, a long term increase in overall incidence rates leveled beginning in 1999 after increasing since 1979. Breast, lung, and colorectal cancers remain the three leading incident cancers among women.

• In 2007, an estimated 678,060 women will be diagnosed with cancer in the U.S.
• Overall, the incidence of breast cancer began to stabilize in 2001 after increasing since the 1980s.
• The increase in lung cancer incidence rates in women has slowed from 1991 to 2004 compared to previous years.
• Overall, colorectal cancer incidence began declining in 1985 for women.
• Thyroid cancer incidence in women has increased 5.6% from 1995-2004. The cause is unknown but may be due to increased detection or changes in risk factors.
• Hispanic women had lower incidence rates than non-Hispanic whites for most cancers, but were more likely to be diagnosed at an advanced stage for cancers of the lung, colon and rectum, breast and cervix.

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Source

http://women.cancer.gov/research/incidence.shtml