Cancer deaths fall, new diagnoses stable: report
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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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In the United States, rates of  invasive cervical cancer declined between 1998 and 2002,  although significant racial, ethnic, and geographic differences  persisted, according to pre-vaccine surveillance data covering  87 percent the population of women.
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The number of heart surgery patients dying has fallen slightly with big gains in treating the elderly and women, a report says.
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People who are depressed about their  cancer are no more likely to die than people who keep a  positive outlook, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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eople who survive cancer appear to get worse care than the general population when it comes to other diseases, a study released last week concluded.
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A new technology that counts cancer cells in the blood helps predict the success of breast cancer treatments more quickly and more reliably than established methods, researchers reported.
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People who have cancer surgery at facilities designated by the US government as &quot;centers of excellence&quot; are less likely to die soon after the operation.
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Breast cancer is less likely to return in patients who stick to a low-fat diet, according to a study released on Saturday.
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Blacks still have a much higher  death rate from cancer than whites even though U.S. cancer  death rates are down overall and among blacks as well, the  American Cancer Society said on Thursday.
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More U.S. children are seeing doctors for asthma, although already-low death rates from the condition have fallen even more, according to statistics from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention released on Tuesday.
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Rates of the most common form of breast cancer dropped a stunning 15 percent from August 2002 to December 2003, researchers reported on Thursday.
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Good news continues to come forth from the cancer front: U.S. death rates from the disease have declined by 18.4 percent among men and by 10.5 percent among women since mortality rates first started going down in the early 1990s.
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Two new studies suggest that exposure to sunlight might not be as risky for cancer as is generally believed.
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SUNDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) -- Colorectal cancer is on the decline in the United States, but doctors aren&#39;t declaring victory just yet against the deadly disease.
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Rates of the most common form of breast cancer dropped from August 2002 to December 2003, researchers reported.
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A sharp decline in new breast cancer cases in 2003 in the United States have come because millions of older women ceased hormone replacement therapy the previous year, researchers said on Thursday.
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Tumor cells found in the blood of breast cancer patients up to 20 years after surgery suggest that the body may have ways of keeping a dormant cancer in check, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.