The American Cancer Society’s annual cancer statistics report finds death rates from cancer have decreased by 18.4 percent among men and by 10.5 percent among women since the early 1990s, which translates to the avoidance of more than half a million actual cancer deaths (534,500) in the United States. Society epidemiologists predict that in the US in 2008 there will be 1,437,180 new cancer cases and 565,650 cancer deaths.