Steepest decline in US cancer mortality ever recorded, study finds
Declining smoking rates, rapid diagnosis, and newer treatments are thawing mortality rates for cancer, which only lags behind heart disease as the biggest killer in the United States — researchers suggested in a new study on Wednesday.
The largest-ever one-year decline in the US cancer death rate — driven primarily by diminishing lung cancer mortality — was a 2.2% drop from 2016 to 2017, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS) report, which calculated an overall drop of 29% in US cancer rates from 1991 to 2017.
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