The Basics: The Asterisk on Cancer Deaths
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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 mortality rates for most  men diagnosed with prostate cancer in the United States are no  higher than those in the general population, a new analysis  shows. "The bottom line is that most men diagnosed with the  disease today can expect to live as long as, or longer than,  men their age without the disease," two editorialists comment.
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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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About 7.6 million people will die this year worldwide from various types of cancer, with lung cancer -- heavily driven by smoking -- killing 975,000 men and 376,000 women, the American Cancer Society said on Monday.
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Over the past 14 years there have been 114 deaths from cancer in Huangmengying, a village with a population of more than 2,400 in Shenqiu County, Central China&#39;s Henan Province.
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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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THURSDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Physicians may soon be able to identify which men have a more deadly form of prostate cancer, U.S. researchers report.
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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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Hepatitis B has been referred to as the silent killer within the Asian/Pacific Islander community. It&#39;s an asymptomatic disease that often leads to liver cancer.
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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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The number of deaths in the United States rose in 2005 after a sharp decline the year earlier, a disappointing reversal that suggests the 2004 numbers were a fluke. Cancer deaths were also up.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- If you have a college degree, you have up to a 76 percent reduced risk of dying from cancer, a new study found.
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A bowel cancer screening programme is being introduced in a bid to reduce deaths.
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During 2004, three of my close friends have died from various forms of cancer, proving that regardless of what we have, there is nothing more important in this life than your health.
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Some numbers shed light on prostate cancer. For example, one in six American men will be diagnosed during his lifetime. One in 32 -- nearly 30,000 men -- will die of the illness this year.
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For the first time, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the top killer of Americans under 85, health officials said Wednesday. The good news is that deaths from both are falling, but improvement has been more dramatic for heart disease.
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Minneapolis (WCCO) Did you know this? Lung cancer is the deadliest of all cancers -- killing more people than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined.