Cancer Mortality Continues to Steady Decline

The cancer death rate has now declined by 29% from 1991 to year 2017 that includes a 2.2% drop from 2016 to 2017 which is also the largest single-year drop in reference to cancer mortality that has been ever reported. The news has come from Cancer Statistics, 2020, which is also the latest edition of the American Cancer Society's report of whole year on cancer rates and trends.
The slow and steady 26-year decline that is in overall cancer mortality and is driven by long-term drops in the death rates that are for the four major cancers -- lung, colorectal, breast, and last prostate, however recent trends are mixed. The pace of such mortality reductions are for lung cancer and the leading cause of cancer death has accelerated in recent years that is from 2% per year to 4% overall and along with it spurring the record of one-year drop in the overall cancer mortality.
In contrast with it the progress has slowed for colorectal, breast, and also prostate cancers. The article has appeared early online in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and is also further accompanied by a consumer version.
Overall it has been witnessed that cancer death rates has dropped by an average of 1.5% per year which is during the most recent decade of data (2008-2017) and continuing a trend that began in the early 1990s and also resulting in the 29% drop in cancer mortality in that time. The drop has also translated to approximately 2.9 million fewer cancer deaths than it would have occurred had mortality rates would have remained at their peak.

By: Prerana Sharma

Content: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200108074809.htm