“It's really, really important that every year since 1991, cancer mortality has dropped by a little bit, and it did again!” said Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter. “Now, mortality is a good metric, age-adjusted mortality. As far as survival, well, that's not so good.”
The American Cancer Society’s 2026 annual statistics report trumpets a symbolic milestone for oncology—for the first time, the five-year relative survival rate for all cancers combined has reached 70% for people diagnosed between 2015 and 2021 in the U.S.
In this episode of In the Headlines, Paul Goldberg, publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, talk about controversial data cited in Trump’s “Make American Healthy Again” executive order that claims that the U.S. has the highest age-standardized incidence rate of cancer globally. But where did that data come from?
Cancer data quoted in President Trump’s executive order last week have raised eyebrows among experts in cancer epidemiology.
VOICES of Black Women, the largest population study of Black women in the United States, will be the first of American Cancer Society’s large-scale population studies to be initiated using an AI-driven data management platform—promising to bring observational cancer research out of the age of Excel data files and email sharing.
NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at NCI is marking 50 years of cancer surveillance.
Cancer death rates continued to decline among men, women, children, and adolescents and young adults in every major racial and ethnic group in the U.S. from 2015 to 2019, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.
The breast cancer community has lost a friend, a partner, and a dedicated patient advocate.
Leslie Bernstein, PhD, a trailblazing cancer epidemiologist, died July 28. She was 82.
Peter Boyle, FRSE, FFPH, FRCPS(Glas), FRCP(Edin), FMedSci, died after a long illness on July 23 at his home in Lyon, France. He was 71.
