Decline in breast cancer death rates has stalled for youngest and oldest women

DOTmed March 10, 2025
Gus Iversen

A new study published in the Journal of Breast Imaging reports that breast cancer mortality rates have stopped declining for women over 74, a newly identified trend, while reconfirming that rates have remained flat for women under 40 since 2010.

Researchers Debra Monticciolo and R. Edward Hendrick analyzed data from the National Center for Health Statistics spanning 1990 to 2022. They found that overall breast cancer mortality in U.S. women declined by 43.5% over that period, with the rate of decrease slowing in recent years. From 2010 to 2022, mortality rates fell by 1.23% annually—the slowest recorded decline since 1990.

For women ages 20 to 39, mortality rates decreased by 2.79% per year from 1990 to 2010 but have since...

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