US cancer death rate hits 25 years of decline, study says
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
Updated 11:32 AM EST, Tue January 08, 2019
(CNN) The rate of people dying from cancer in the United States seems to have dropped steadily for 25 years, a new study says, but disparities remain between the rich and the poor.
The overall nationwide cancer death rate fell continuously from 1991 to 2016 by a total of 27%, according to a study by the American Cancer Society, published Tuesday in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
That translates to about 2.6 million fewer cancer deaths total than would have been expected if death rates stayed at their peak, which was seen in 1991, according to the study.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/08/health/cancer-death-rate-decline-us-study/index.html
