More than 1.5 million cancer deaths averted during 2 decades of dropping mortality

Friday, January 2, 2015 - 01:30 in Health & Medicine

The American Cancer Society's annual cancer statistics report finds that a 22 percent drop in cancer mortality over two decades led to the avoidance of more than 1.5 million cancer deaths that would have occurred if peak rates had persisted.

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