The latest cancer report from the American Cancer Society shows both positive and worrying trends: Overall cancer deaths are down, but the number of women and young people living with cancer is up.

The annual report, published Thursday in CA: A Journal of Cancer for Clinicians, found that cancer death rates in the United States fell 34% from 1991 to 2022.

Although overall cancer deaths are declining, due to Earlier detection and better treatmentnot all cancers are like this. The report found that death rates were rising for some types of cancer, including oral, pancreatic, uterine and liver cancer.

The report highlights that racial inequalities in cancer deaths also persist.

price at native american Kidney, liver, stomach and cervical cancer rates are two or three times higher than among white people. Black person Compared with white people, white people are twice as likely to die from prostate, stomach and uterine cancer, and 50% more likely to die from preventable cervical cancer.

The report also found a shift in the number of women and young people suffering from cancer. For example, cancer cases among women aged 50 to 64 already exceed those among men. Cancer rates among women under 50 are now 82% higher than among men, up from 51% in 2002.

Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, said: "One of the really shocking things we found in this report is that there is an increase in the number of women being diagnosed with cancer compared with men, particularly in the 50s. to the 64-year-old age group," the society told CBS News. "It's certainly concerning to see this trend over time and something we need to consider."

The report doesn't identify why we're seeing these increases, but obesity rates and genetic and environmental factors may be at play, Dahout said.

although pancreatic cancer As the third leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, the report found that progress is lagging. Dahout said at a news conference on Tuesday that detecting pancreatic cancer in its treatable stages is difficult and called for more screening and treatment options.

"This really raises the stakes of the scientific community to hopefully catch pancreatic cancer early because it is a very difficult cancer to treat once regional metastasis occurs (when it spreads to nearby organs or lymph nodes)," he said.