Cancer deaths decrease

For the first time since 1930 annual cancer deaths in the United States have fallen according to the National Center for Health Statistics in a recently completed review of U.S. death certificates.

Smoking, earlier diagnosis, and improvement in treatment is the reason according to Dr. Michael Thun, director of epidemiological research for the American Cancer Society. He surmizes that the most credit goes to the reduction in smoking over the last 4 to 5 decades.

Scientific research, screening campaigns, radiation and chemotherapy cancer treatments are harsh and resulted in the fact that total deaths continued to rise, until now. The actual number of cancer deaths still rose each year due to the growth in total population outpacing the falling death rates.

However, now the declining rates of cancer deaths have surpassed the increasing size of the population according to Rebecca Siegel, a Cancer Society epidemiologist.

Lung, breast, prostate and colorectal cancer are the four most common cancers, which together account for 51 percent of all U.S. cancer deaths.

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In Canada a downward trend in mortality rates from cancer in recent years has also been reached.

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