[Pharmboy]

The overall rate continues to fall as the chemo-phobes like Dierdre Imus continue to fear monger about the "dangers" of the environment.

[KarlInOhio]

Cancer Death Rate Dropped by Nearly 20% in 15-Year Period

Socialized medical rationing should be able to reverse that trend.

[TornadoAlley3]

Obama is going to change it, waiting months to years for an X-Ray etc.

[TC Rider]

The death rate due to cancer has declined in the United States in recent years, largely due to better prevention and treatment. In fact, 650,000 lives were spared from cancer between 1990 to 2005, according to new statistics from the American Cancer Society.

Can we stop the cancer walks/races now?

[HIDEK6]

Cancer might be down, but the peanut allergies are really getting out of hand.

[edge10]

According to Snarling Arlen, that’s um-possible! Evil
Republicans prevented spending on cancer treatments/cures.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I hate to show my ignorance but I do not understand the significance of these numbers. Are these numbers percentages of deaths? If so, if people dying of these cancers less then what are they dying from more, assuming the death rate remains 100 per cent.

Or are these five year survival figures? I don't know what it means.

To me it should mean that looking at the causes of all deaths these cancers are dropping by these percentages but that means that something else is taking up the slack.

[keepitreal]

Another reason for the decline in breast cancer deaths, however, is delayed diagnosis due to the fact that many women are not getting their yearly X-ray or mammogram.

What a nonsensical sentence. If you don't get screened you don't die? If you don't get diagnosed you don't die? Huh?

[cookcounty]

Look what Obama has done already! Isn’t he wonderful?