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To: Orange1998

http://www.cdc.gov/Features/dsCancerAnnualReport/

Report Highlights

Graph: Cancer Deathe Rates by sex, U.S. 1975-2008.The overall rate of new cancer diagnoses, also known as incidence, among men decreased by an average of 0.6% per year between 2004 and 2008.

Overall cancer incidence rates among women decreased 0.5% per year from 1998 to 2006; rates remained level from 2006 through 2008.

Lung cancer death rates among women decreased for the second year in a row. Lung cancer death rates in men have been decreasing since the early 1990s.

Colorectal cancer incidence rates decreased among men and women from 1999 through 2008.

Breast cancer incidence rates among women decreased from 1999 through 2004, and remained level from 2004 through 2008.

Incidence rates of melanoma and pancreas, kidney, thyroid, and liver cancers increased from 1999 through 2008.


98 posted on 07/17/2013 11:16:30 AM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

Ah... got it, follow up... :-)


201 posted on 02/24/2014 11:46:24 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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