Cancer deaths declining in U.S. There’s some good news about cancer for Americans.
In the latest report on cancer, researchers report the death rate has declined 1.1 percent from 1993 to 2002.
Prevention, earlier detection and better treatments all helped lower the rates, according to the “Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.”
More women are being diagnosed with cancer, but rates among men are stable.
But minorities and women are not benefiting as much as white males, said the report published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
“The cancer incidence rate for all sites combined was 25 percent higher in black men than in white men, and the incidence rates for black men were more than 50 percent higher than those in white men for myeloma and cancers of the prostate, lung, stomach, liver, esophagus, and larynx,” the researchers wrote.
The cancer-death rate overall was 43 percent higher in black men than in white men.
The National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries join forces every year to compile the report on the 15 must common cancers.
This latest report details actual incidence and death rates in recent years, data that take years to collect and analyze.
Overall cancer rates stayed the same for men but increased by 0.3 percent per year for women.
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