Overall Cancer Death Rates Continue To Decline

The latest annual report produced by the American Cancer Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Cancer Institute, and North American Association of Central Cancer Registries reveals that overall cancer death rates continue to decrease in men, women and children for all major racial and ethnic groups. They decreased an average 1.8% per year in men, 1.4% per year in women and 1.6% per year in children between 2010 and 2014.

The report can be obtained at https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jnci/djx030.