Death Rates For Cancer Are Falling

Feels good to share some really good news for promjenu.Novo report finds that the overall death rate for cancer fell (1.6% per year) among U.S. children and adults. Downward trends show how much progress has been made in screening, prevention, early intervention, and treatment of cancer.

Here are some highlights ...

- the incidence of breast cancer remained stable, after a steep decline since the beginning of the 2000s. Less post-menopausal women using hormone therapy, age, and it is responsible for the decline.

- Childhood cancers have risen by 0.6 percent annually since the 1990s, however, a significant decrease in the number of deaths from cancer that started in the 1970s is still going strong. In fact, the mortality rate from cancer in children and teenagers fell by 2.7 percent annually during the period 1975 to 1996, and kept on going down by 1.3 percent annually from 1996 to 2008.

-. Colorectal cancer diagnosis and mortality rates continue to go down, mainly because many of us use screening tools such as colonoscopy to detect cancer early, when treatment is most

- lung cancer incidence and deaths continue to decline for both men and women mainly due to fewer people smoking. Cancer rates have fallen the most in places with strong tobacco cessation programs.

-. Prostate cancer mortality rates have gone down since the early 1980s, but how this contributes to PSA testing crash remains unclear

-. Death rates from cancer have gone down by almost all ethnic groups

There are some bits of bad news, naravno.Prvi increased diagnosis of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Since 1999, melanoma rates have risen by 2.5 percent per year in women, 2.3% per year in men. Experts see this is an emerging epidemic.

other little bad news is that cancer is associated with obesity is going up. And because more of us are overweight than ever before, it is a potential danger is far greater than anything that our health system has seen to date.

for more than 30 years of obesity, inactive and eating poorly, starved of food intake are just behind tobacco use as causes of death that can prevent disease. The use of tobacco declined since the 1960s, obesity, however, has doubled since then

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view more than 7000 study provides support for the association of obesity and higher risk of colorectal cancer and postmenopausal breast cancer in the esophagus, pancreas, kidney and uterus. Not being active was related to risk of colon cancer, as well as the prospects for post-menopausal breast cancer and uterine cancer.

In fact, as the obese and inactive are coming to be known as new threats to public health in terms of the fight against cancer. Although doctors know that carries too much fat is bad for you, because the risk of heart disease and diabetes, not to mention many other chronic conditions, cancer, yet failed to list. It is now.

just published a report on the mortality rates for cancer for the first time that the relationship between weight and cancer was in the spotlight.