Good News: U.S. Cancer Death Rates Have Fallen 25% Since 1991

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By Seth Pollard

Deaths from cancer in the United States peaked in 1991, but have since dropped a whopping 25%, according a report published earlier this year by the American Cancer Society (ACS). [1]

As a result of that drop, 2.1 million fewer people died from cancer between 1991 and 2014 than would have died if cancer death rates had remained stagnant at their 1991 level.

The ACS credits reductions in smoking and advances in early detection and treatment for the significant decline, such as more people having colonoscopies to detect colorectal cancer.

Source: CDC

Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer of …read more

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