... Additional statistics in the report include:
Cancer death rates are lower among more educated African ... boys and girls, among whom smoking rates have been decreasing since the late 1990s, have lower ...
ATLANTA (AP) -- The U.S. cancer death rate fell again in 2006, a new analysis shows, continuing a slow downward trend that experts attribute to declines in smoking, ...
A new comprehensive analysis has detailed how cancer death rates in developed countries have fallen substantially in the last 20 years, despite a general increase in the prevalence of cancer.
... living in Asia (but not in the USA) have higher death rates from lung cancer than people of European descent. ... support previous research that suggests lung cancer risk among never smokers is increasing ...
... combined with a leveling off of lung cancer death rates among women.
The concurrent declines ... factors, including a family history of colon cancer or polyps, and African Americans, may need screening ...
ATLANTA (AP) -- The racial gap in colon cancer death rates is widening, a new report says, and experts partly blame blacks' lower screening rates and poor access to quality care....
... years.
Smoking is a known cause of most lung cancers, and the study authors concluded that the very close ... twenty-five years between lung and other cancer death rates suggests a single cause for both ...
... 25 and 64 who died from one of the four major cancers between 1993 and 2001. The data are from the National Center ... white women and an increase in the colon cancer death rate in less educated black men ...
Value of rigorous checking in doubt as study finds it does nothing to reduce cancer death rates
... benefit from the surgery, with respect to prostate cancer death rates, remained constant beyond 10 ... whether their data are applicable to men whose cancer is detected in the era of PSA screening because ...
... hand, racial disparity in overall cancer death rates remains. In 2005, the last year ... yet. The racial disparity in colorectal cancer death rate is one of the most serious concerns raised by this study ...
Cancer death rates in the United States are highest among African Americans, but a new report shows that in Missouri the disparity in cancer incidence and death between African ...
... the accuracy of detecting small tumors."
The American Cancer Society estimates that 11,070 American women ... increased use of the Pap test, cervical cancer death rates declined 74 percent between 1955 ...
... disease. Despite decreases in overall cancer death rates across all racial and ethnic groups since the early 1990s, racial disparities in cancer mortality persist. African Americans have the highest ...
... often transvaginal ultrasound led to a high rate of unnecessary removal of the ovaries, which means no ... screens led to a reduction in the ovarian cancer death rate, reported the British study authors ...
