Cancer Mortality

Progress shown in death rates from four leading cancers

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 21st, 2003

Death rates from the four most common cancers - lung, breast, prostate, and colorectal - continued to decline in the late 1990s according to new data from the "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2000."

For all cancers combined, the death rate began to stabilize in the late 1990s, showing neither an increase nor a decrease, while the incidence rate (newly diagnosed cases) began to stabilize in the middle of the decade.

The report concluded that further reductions in cancer can be achieved but will require strong federal, state, local, and private partnerships to apply evidence-based cancer control measures - such as screening...

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Source: Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA (2003-09-21)

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