The cancer rate grows as the death rate drops

 USA Facts - One in every five deaths in the US is due to cancer, and one in every three Americans is expected to have cancer in their lifetime. However, as cases grow along with the population, a smaller proportion of people are getting and dying from cancer. Here's what data says about fighting cancer in the United States. The country had approximately 1.3 million new cancer cases reported in 1999. Twenty years later, cases had grown nearly 35% to 1.75 million. Yet over the same time, the age-adjusted rate of new cancer cases per 100,000 people fell from 481.2 to 438.6, roughly a 9% drop.