From Bad to Better: U.S. Cancer Rates Continue to Drop
January 6, 2012
Cancer death rates for men and women in the U.S. kept dropping through 2008, continuing a nearly 20-year-long trend.
According to a new report from the American Cancer Society, overall death rates have declined for both sexes and nearly every racial and ethnic group. The exception was American Indians/Alaska Natives, whose rates have remained steady.
As a result, more than 1 million Americans who would have been expected to die from cancer have not.
Despite the good news, experts cautioned against complacency.
Cancer is still the second-leading cause of death in the U.S. behind heart disease. About half of men and 1 in 3 women will develop cancer during their lifetimes.
"This is not an acceptable decrease. This is something that needs a lot more work," says Raymond DuBois Jr., MD, PhD, provost and executive vice president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "We definitely need to work on getting better treatments and much more sophisticated early detection approaches."

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