A new report from the nation's leading cancer organizations shows that, for the first time since the report was first issued in 1998, both incidence and death rates for all cancers combined are decreasing for both men and women, driven largely by declines in some of the most common types of cancer.
Estimated new cases and deaths from cancer in the United States in 2009:
New cases: 1,479,350 (does not include nonmelanoma skin cancers)