The Asterisk on Cancer Deaths
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Cancer death rates are down in the United States, but certain cancers seem to be becoming more common. Why?
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MONDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDay News)  -- Cancer continues to cut a deadly swath across the globe, with the American Cancer Society reporting 12 million new cases of malignancy diagnosed worldwide in 2007, with 7.6 million people dying from the disease.
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The U.S. death rate from cancer has continued a steady decline that began in the early 1990s but it will still kill a projected 565,650 Americans this year, the American Cancer Society said on Wednesday.
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FRIDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- Since 1988, the incidence of cancer among Asian Americans in California has declined 5.9 percent and cancer deaths have fallen 16.3 percent.
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THURSDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- People diagnosed with cancer who don't have health insurance are more likely to die because they are less likely to get screening tests and so are typically diagnosed with advanced disease, a new study from the American Cancer Society finds.
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Obesity is on its way to being deadlier than smoking as a cause of cancer, a leading researcher said Friday. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 percent of cancer deaths in men and 20 percent in women, compared with about 30 percent each for smoking, Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Death rates from cancer are continuing to decline but scientists have uncovered a surprising jump in cases of thyroid cancer.
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Death rates from cancer have  continued to drop in the United States, with Hispanics showing  lower-than-average rates of most cancers, according to the  latest statistics published on Wednesday.
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About 30,000 Americans each year contract oral cancer, and 8,000 of them will die, but people remain ignorant of a disease that can be cured if caught in the early stages, a University of Medicine &amp; Dentistry of New Jersey official said Wednesday.
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After cancers of the lung and breast, colorectal cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer deaths among US women. About 130,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed in the United States every year, resulting in 56,000 deaths.
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People with advanced cancer may  suffer substantial emotional distress, but relatively few may  be discussing it with their doctors, new research suggests.
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Cancer is killing millions in Europe - and more must be done to prevent its most common forms, experts warn.
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Prostate cancer (news - web sites) is the second most common type of cancer afflicting American men. And while one in six men will get the disease during his lifetime, only one in 32 will die from it.
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(HealthDayNews) -- After cancers of the lung and breast, colorectal cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer deaths among U.S. women. About 130,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed in the United States every year, resulting in 56,000 deaths.
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Sept. 27, 2004 -- Black men are twice as likely as whites to die from prostate cancer, but according to a new study, they are only half as likely to be screened for it.
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Should parents talk to their dying children about death? A Swedish study found that parents whose children died of cancer had no regrets about talking to them about
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Description: A new study finds that deaths in cancer drug trials have declined ten-fold, thanks to the development of drugs that are better targeted at the tumors themselves.