{"id":18916,"date":"2017-01-06T12:50:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T12:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=18916"},"modified":"2017-01-06T12:54:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T12:54:57","slug":"us-cancer-death-rate-drops-25-percent-since-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/us-cancer-death-rate-drops-25-percent-since-1991.html","title":{"rendered":"US cancer death rate drops 25 percent since 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US cancer death rate drops 25 percent since 1991<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

US cancer death rate drops 25 percent since 1991<\/strong>:-The cancer death rate in the United States has dropped 25 percent from a peak in 1991, mainly due to a steady decline in smoking and advances in early detection and treatment of tumors, new research released Thursday shows.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rate decrease means there were about 2.1 million fewer deaths between 1991 and 2014, according to an annual report by the American Cancer Society (ACS).<\/span><\/p>\n

“The continuing drops in the cancer death rate are a powerful sign of the potential we have to reduce cancer’s deadly toll,” ACS chief medical officer Otis Brawley said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The decreasing death rates were most pronounced for patients suffering from four major types of cancer — lung, breast, prostate and colorectal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lung cancer deaths among men plummeted by 43 percent between 1990 and 2014, and by 17 percent among women between 2002 and 2014, according to the research published in CA: A Journal for Clinicians.<\/span><\/p>\n

The breast cancer mortality rate for women decreased by 38 percent between 1989 and 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

The drop is even more dramatic among men suffering from prostate cancer — 51 percent between 1993 and 2014 — and in colon cancer deaths among both sexes, which plunged 51 percent between 1976 and 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some 1.68 million new cases of cancer will emerge in the United States this year, the report predicts, along with 600,000 deaths from the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cancer remains the second most prominent cause of death in the country, behind cardio-vascular ailments.<\/span>
\n– Gender disparities<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past decade, the incidence of cancer has remained stable among women and declined among men by almost two percent a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liver cancer, an extremely fatal form of the disease, is three times more common in men than women. That partly reflects a higher rate of Hepatitis C infection among men — often associated with unprotected sex — and the fact that men tend to consume tobacco and cigarettes in higher rates<\/span><\/p>\n

“Finally, we need to consistently apply existing knowledge in cancer control across all segments of the population, particularly to disadvantaged groups.”<\/span><\/p>\n

source:-https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-cancer-death-rate-drops-25-percent-since-090600717.html<\/span><\/div>\n

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