US Cancer Mortality Rate Sees Record Decline

from the American Cancer Society found “the cancer death rate in the United States has dropped 29 percent since 1991,” which “translates to approximately 2.9 million fewer cancer deaths than would have occurred if the mortality rate had remained constant.” Moreover, the US saw “an accelerated drop in the cancer death rate of 2.2 percent from 2016 to 2017 – the largest single-year decline in cancer mortality ever reported,” according to the research published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. CNN (1/8, Howard) reports at its peak, the US recorded “215 cancer deaths for every 100,000 people in 1991,” and since that time, “the cancer death rate in the United States has continued to fall.” For female breast cancer, the rate “fell 40% since its peak in 1989,” while for prostate cancer, the rate “52% since 1993.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/health/cancer-deaths-decline.html