U.S. cancer death rate down but 565,650 seen in 2008
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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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More New Jerseyans are surviving cancer, but the state survival rate still trails the national rate, according to a state report issued Tuesday.
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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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Seven and a half million people worldwide died from cancer in 2005 and the number of cases in the Middle East is expected to soar over the next 15 years, Moroccan news agency MAP quoted the World Health Organization as saying.
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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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THURSDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- Even though they account for 60 percent of cancer patients in the United States, patients aged 65 and older make up just 36 percent of participants in cancer clinical trials, claims a study in the Nov. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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More Americans than ever before are surviving cancer and rates in general are falling, mostly because fewer people are smoking, the American Cancer Society reported on Wednesday.
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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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Cancer death rates are down in the United States, but certain cancers seem to becoming more common. Why?
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NEW YORK  - The number of breast cancer surgeries that a hospital performs seems to be associated with the likelihood of subsequently dying from breast cancer, Milwaukee-based researchers have found.
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THURSDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDayNews) -- An American adult diagnosed with cancer today has a 64 percent of surviving for at least five years, while almost 80 percent of children with cancer can expect similar outcomes, according to new data presented Thursday.
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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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The number of people dying from cancer and cardiovascular disease has fallen in the last decade in England, according to government figures.
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The risk of treatment-related (toxic) death for cancer patients enrolled in phase 1 clinical trials had decreased significantly over the past 12 years (from 1991 to 2002), according to an article in the November 3 issue of JAMA.
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Patient deaths from experimental cancer drugs during initial human studies declined dramatically from 1991 to 2002, suggesting that better oversight and less-toxic medicines have made cancer research safer, a study found.
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For several of the 2008 presidential candidates, cancer has had a very immediate impact.
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At a time when more people are cured of cancer than ever before, fewer doctors seem willing to say so.