JIM LEHRER: Now a closer look at the first decline of cancer deaths for Americans in 70 year. The latest numbers from 2003 were reported today by the American Cancer Society.

Overall cancer mortality in the United States has continued to decline, with more than 4 million cancer deaths averted since 1991, according to the 2024 American Cancer Society (ACS) annual report ...

While mortality rates overall are on the decline, endometrial cancer deaths saw a slight 2% increase. Black women are at a specific risk (9.1 per 100,000) for endometrial cancer deaths compared to ...

Cancer mortality rates have been dropping for nearly two decades, aided by “major progress” in the early detection and treatment options for lung cancer, according to the American Cancer ...

Cancer mortality in the U.S. is projected to decline again in 2024, but the number of new diagnoses should top 2 million for the first time, an annual report from the American Cancer Society ...

US death rates from cancer continued to decline from 2014 to 2018, driven mostly by drops in deaths from lung cancer and melanoma, according to a new report published Thursday.

The cancer death rate declined by 29 percent from 1991 to 2017, including a 2.2 percent drop from 2016 to 2017, the largest single-year drop in cancer mortality ever reported, according to the ...

The decline in cancer mortality for men in the past 30 years is almost entirely for a handful of cancers—lung, prostate, colon, and rectal. Little progress has been made on other lethal cancers.

Cancer deaths in the United States are continuing to decline, according to a new report from the American Association for Cancer Research.. The report, published Wednesday, found that deaths from ...

Most of that decline can be attributed to a drop in mortality among lung cancer patients.The American Cancer Society projects that there will be about 1.9 million new cancer diagnoses and more ...

For U.S. women overall, breast cancer death rates have fallen markedly from 1990 to 2022, plummeting by 43.5 percent over that period. The years between 2010 and 2022 saw the lowest rate of ...