Cancer, heart disease leading causes of deaths for Canadians: report

Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 12:37 in Health & Medicine

Cancer and heart disease were the two leading causes of deaths for Canadians, responsible for 52.4 per cent of all deaths in 2004, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. The cause of death rankings were reversed in the U.S. for the same year.

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