U.S. Cancer Death Rates Decline; How Can We Continue This Progress?
The new year began with the good news that death rates from cancer are continuing their steady decline. A study released this week by the American Cancer Society showed that from 2016 to 2017, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the cancer death rate declined by 2.2 percent—the largest single-year decline ever recorded. From 1991 to 2017, the cancer death rate has fallen 29 percent, equaling 2.9 million fewer cancer deaths.
