While mortality rates overall are on the decline, endometrial cancer deaths saw a slight 2% increase. Black women are at a specific risk (9.1 per 100,000) for endometrial cancer deaths compared to ...

JIM LEHRER: Now a closer look at the first decline of cancer deaths for Americans in 70 year. The latest numbers from 2003 were reported today by the American Cancer Society.

Overall cancer mortality in the United States has continued to decline, with more than 4 million cancer deaths averted since 1991, according to the 2024 American Cancer Society (ACS) annual report ...

Deaths from cancer dropped 27% over a quarter century, resulting in an estimated 2.6 million fewer cancer deaths during that period, according to a new report from researchers at the American ...

Cancer deaths continue to decline, dropping 33% since 1991 and saving an estimated 3.8 million lives, according to the American Cancer Society's annual statistics report. Topics.

Cancer society officials estimate that 650,000 deaths were avoided from 1990 to 2005 because of the decline in the death rate. They predict that 1,479,350 new cancer cases will be diagnosed in ...

Cancer mortality in the U.S. is projected to decline again in 2024, but the number of new diagnoses should top 2 million for the first time, an annual report from the American Cancer Society ...

The Annual Progress Report from the American Association for Cancer Research shows "remarkable advances" in "cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment" The rate of cancer deaths in ...

Cancer remains the second leading cause of death (after heart disease) with 1.6 million new cancer cases and 600,000 deaths expected annually. There is good news, however. The American Cancer ...

Stanford Medicine. (2024, January 17). Metastatic breast cancer treatments have aided decline in deaths. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 01 ...

The overall cancer death rate dropped by about 32% from its peak in 1991 to 2019, from about 215 deaths for every 100,000 people to about 146.