Cancer Death Rates Drop 20% Over 2 Decades by Denise Mann. WebMD Health News. January 17, 2013.
This drop translates into 1.2 million lives spared. For some cancers the drop has ben even more dramatic: 40%+ for prostate cancer; 30%+ for colorectal, breast, and lung cancer. While there has been progress, liver, thyroid, and pancreatic cancers are on the rise and still one in four deaths in the U.S. is due to cancer. It is unknown what effect the obesity epidemic will have on death rates.
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