U.S. breast cancer death rate drops more: report
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The death rate from breast cancer continues to drop steadily by about 2 percent a year, but black women are not seeing the same benefits as whites, the American Cancer Society said on Tuesday.
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Women from more deprived backgrounds have a lower breast cancer survival rate, research suggests.
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Since 1988, the incidence of cancer among Asian Americans in California has declined 5.9 percent and cancer deaths have fallen 16.
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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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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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Researchers singled out the deaths of more than 300,000 cancer patients, because deaths from cancer are usually more predictable and less sudden than those from heart attacks, strokes or other ailments.
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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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A NEWER drug prevented far more breast cancers from recurring in older women than the old standby tamoxifen and with far fewer side effects, doctors in the US said yesterday, citing a new study.
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Invasive breast cancer rates  have fallen since the substantial decline in postmenopausal  hormone replacement therapy (HRT) occurred, even after a  decline in breast cancer screening rates, according to findings  published in the 5th Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in black women: they are more likely to have tumors that do not respond to the hormone-based treatments that help many others with the disease.
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NEW YORK  - Breast cancer screening in the US is common among women 80 years of age or older, but it is of little benefit to the majority of them, according to a new study.
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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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Women who underwent hypnosis before breast cancer surgery needed less anesthesia and had fewer side effects than women who got counseling instead, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Black American women are more likely to have a hard-to-treat form of breast cancer, they get it earlier and they are more likely to die of it, researchers said on Thursday.
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Black women with advanced breast cancer  are faring no better now than they were two decades ago despite  improved survival by white women -- and the gap appears to be  widening, U.S. researchers said Sunday.
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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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Breast cancer survivors are 37  percent more likely to commit suicide than other women, and the  elevated risk persists for at least 25 years after diagnosis,  according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer  Institute.