Xinhua News Agency, Washington, March 11 (Reporter Tan Jingjing) According to the latest data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, more than 600,000 people in the United States will die from cancer in 2020, second only to heart disease deaths. number of people. Heart disease, cancer and Covid-19 were the top 3 causes of death.
2021December 14, in New York, USA, the staff will A patient was admitted to the hospital. Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Guo Ke)
According to data, a total of 602,350 people in the United States died of cancer in 2020, including 284,619 women and 317,731 men. The 65- to 84-year-old group has the highest cancer mortality rate of any age group, with approximately 338,000 cancer deaths in this age group in 2020.
Data show that lung cancer is the leading cause of death among various cancers, and about 136,000 Americans will die from lung cancer in 2020, accounting for 23% of the total. In addition to lung cancer, the leading causes of cancer deaths are colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer and intrahepatic bile duct cancer.
The CDC reports that in the 20 years from 2001 to 2020, the cancer death rate in the United States fell by nearly 27%, from about 196 deaths per 100,000 people to about 144 deaths per 100,000 people. .