Slow but steady: Cancer death rates drop 20 percent in two decades

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 11:00 in Health & Medicine

Cancer death rates in the U.S. have dropped 20 percent in the past two decades, thanks largely to less smoking, increased prevention and better detection, a new report finds.

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