Cancer death rate in US falls by largest single-year amount on record – Xinhua | English.news.cn – Xinhua

NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — The death rate from cancer in the United States dropped by 2.4 percent from 2017 to 2018, the biggest single-year decline on record, the American Cancer Society said in its latest report.
It was the second year in a row with a record-setting drop, and the progress continues gains that have been made for more than a quarter of century, according to the report, in which researchers analyzed cancer mortality data from 1930 to 2018.
Overall, the cancer mortality rate has…

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