Cancer Statistics 2014: Death rates continue to drop
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
An American Cancer Society report finds steady declines in cancer death rates for the past two decades add up to a 20 percent drop in the overall risk of dying from cancer over that time period. Progress has been most rapid for middle-aged black men. Nevertheless, black men still have the highest cancer incidence and death rates among all ethnicities in the US.