US cancer death rates in decline: Annual report focuses on brain tumors
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Lung cancer death rates in women have fallen for the first time in four decades, according to an annual report on the status of cancer. The drop comes about 10 years after lung cancer deaths in men began to fall, a delay that reflects the later uptake of smoking by women in the middle of the last century.