Science news articles about 'cancer death rates'

... to smaller decreases in breast and colorectal cancer death rates. The report estimates that among African ... . Additional statistics in the report include: Cancer death rates are lower among more educated African ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- The U.S. cancer death rate fell again in 2006, a new analysis shows, continuing a slow downward trend ...

... ., a college degree). Death rates also decreased for colorectal, breast, and lung cancers among white ... 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

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.

... . The benefit from the surgery, with respect to prostate cancer death rates, remained constant beyond 10 ... .8 years, the cumulative incidence rate for prostate cancer death was 13.5 percent ...

Death rates from lung cancer are higher among men who have never smoked than women who have never ... living in Asia (but not in the USA) have higher death rates from lung cancer than people of European descent ...

... yet. The racial disparity in colorectal cancer death rate is one of the most serious concerns raised by this study ... but had a 46 percent higher breast cancer death rate. Schootman says that other studies suggest that lack ...

Cancer death rates in the United States are highest among African Americans, but a new report shows ...

... cervical cancer in 2008. Largely attributable to increased use of the Pap test, cervical cancer death rates declined 74 percent between 1955 ...

... of disease. Despite decreases in overall cancer death rates across all racial and ethnic groups ... the black-white disparity in overall cancer death rates narrowed from the early 1990s through ...

... a simultaneous decline in both cancer death rates and incidence rates in men and women. Incidence ... ), combined with a leveling off of lung cancer death rates among women. The concurrent declines ...

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....

... over twenty-five years between lung and other cancer death rates suggests a single cause for both ... , said, "The fact that lung and non-lung cancer death rates are almost perfectly associated means ...

... the screens led to a reduction in the ovarian cancer death rate, reported the British study authors ... ranks as the fifth leading cause of female cancer death, and it is diagnosed primarily in women aged ...