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National Cancer Rates Saw Huge Drop in Last Quarter Century, But Less So for People Who Are Poor or Of Color [calhealthreport.org]

 

Last week saw some good news about cancer from the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) annual checkup report—a 25-year decline in cancer rates and a 27 percent drop in the overall cancer death rates in the United States.

That’s approximately 2.6 million fewer cancer deaths between 1991 and 2016. Early detection and optimal treatment get credit from the ACS, along with reductions in smoking rates, for declines in lung, breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers.

“The decline in cancer mortality over the past two decades is primarily the result of steady reductions in smoking and advances in early detection and treatment, which are reflected in the declines for the four major cancers,” said Rebecca Siegel, Scientific  Director, Surveillance Research for the American Cancer Society, and the lead author of the study.

[For more on this story by Fran Kritz, go to http://www.calhealthreport.org...s-people-poor-color/]

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