May 23, 2013

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Posted: Wed 1:26 AM, Jan 23, 2013
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Reporter: CBS
Updated: Wed 7:22 AM, Jan 23, 2013

Cancer Rates Continue to Fall in US

A new report from the American cancer society finds the overall death rate from cancer has gone down 20 percent from its peak in 1991.

From Cancer Statistics, 2013:

  • Cancer Rates Declines by nearly 2% in men and 1.5% in women
  • Nearly 1.2 million deaths from cancer were averted, with over 150 thousand averted in 2009 alone

The drop is even greater for the big four -- breast, lung, colorectum and prostate cancer.

Dr. Otis W. Brawley of the American Cancer Society says that “fewer Americans are smoking. After that it’s improvements in early detection of cancer and improvements in treatments of cancer.”

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