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posted by martyb on Thursday January 09 2020, @04:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the yay! dept.

Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress against Lung Cancer:

The cancer death rate declined by 29% from 1991 to 2017, including a 2.2% drop from 2016 to 2017, the largest single-year drop in cancer mortality ever reported. The news comes from Cancer Statistics, 2020, the latest edition of the American Cancer Society's annual report on cancer rates and trends.

The steady 26-year decline in overall cancer mortality is driven by long-term drops in death rates for the four major cancers -- lung, colorectal, breast, and prostate, although recent trends are mixed. The pace of mortality reductions for lung cancer -- the leading cause of cancer death -- accelerated in recent years (from 2% per year to 4% overall) spurring the record one-year drop in overall cancer mortality. In contrast, progress slowed for colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers.

Let's hope progress accelerates with CRISPR and other new tools.

Journal Reference:
Rebecca L. Siegel, Kimberly D. Miller, Ahmedin Jemal. Cancer statistics, 2020. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2020; DOI: 10.3322/caac.21590


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 09 2020, @04:48PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 09 2020, @04:48PM (#941488)

    To put this another way if 5% more people with cancer kill themselves before dying of cancer, would that show a 5% reduced mortality rate from cancer?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 09 2020, @04:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 09 2020, @04:53PM (#941492)

    Correct, more people are dying of poisonings, etc in middle age instead of cancer at a later age:

    US life expectancy increased for most of the past 60 years, but the rate of increase slowed over time and life expectancy decreased after 2014. A major contributor has been an increase in mortality from specific causes (eg, drug overdoses, suicides, organ system diseases) among young and middle-aged adults of all racial groups, with an onset as early as the 1990s and with the largest relative increases occurring in the Ohio Valley and New England. The implications for public health and the economy are substantial, making it vital to understand the underlying causes.

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2756187 [jamanetwork.com]

    Btw, The cancer stats also leave out skin cancer :0.