Death rate from cancer down 20% since 1980, but clusters of high mortality remain

Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - 21:31 in Health & Medicine

The mortality rate due to cancer is falling nationwide, but worrisome pockets of deadly malignancy persist — and in some places have worsened — in regions throughout the country, according to the first-ever county-by-county analysis of cancer deaths across the United States. The death rate attributed...

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