Thursday, March 31, 2011

NIH News on Cancer Rates

Report to nation finds continued declines in many cancer rates;
special feature highlights changes in brain tumor rates and survival


In this report - while "Rates of death in the United States from all cancers for men and women continued to decline between 2003 and 2007, the most recent reporting period available.....childhood cancer incidence rates (rates of new diagnoses) continued to increase while death rates in this age group decreased. Childhood cancer is classified as cancers occurring in those 19 years of age or younger."

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