It will be 10 years on June 1, 2005
The study, called the "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975 to 2001," found that death rates from all cancers combined dropped 1.1 percent annually from 1993 to 2001.
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| Help find the cure to all forms of cancer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On April 15th and 16th, Lewis University, St. Francis and the JJC Raised $33,000 for Relay for Life | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In honor of my father, Ernest Habenschuss, who died from Lukiemia in 1995. It will be 10 years on June 1, 2005 |
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| Thank you too all the Thetas for being there for me and supporting me in so many ways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Cancer remains the nation's No. 2 medical killer after heart disease. In 2001, 553,768 Americans died of cancer, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| from 1975 to 1979, there was an overall five-year cancer survival rate of 43 percent. By 1995 to 2000, the five-year survival rate had increased to 64 percent. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The death rates have fallen for the "four major types of cancer." He said lung-cancer deaths have declined, but only in men. Deaths from colon cancer have dropped in both men and women. Breast-cancer deaths have declined among women, while prostate-cancer deaths have decreased among men. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| the American cancer death rate peaked in 1991, and that from then to 2001, the overall death rate dropped 9 percent to 10 percent. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Childhood cancers have shown some of the biggest improvements in survival during the past two decades. There has been an increase of 20 percent in the survival rate among boys and of 13 percent among girls. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Black men had a 9 percent greater risk of dying from lung cancer than white men and a 67 percent greater risk of mortality from cancer of the oral cavity than white men. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Black men and women were both found to be at higher risk of dying from cancer than white people. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Despite all the good news in the new cancer report, it showed that not all U.S. populations have benefited equally. It also identified some malignancies, such as liver cancers in which the death rate continues to rise. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Black women had a 7 percent greater risk of dying from lung cancer than white women. Also, their risk of dying from cancer of the uterus or from melanoma, or skin cancer, was 82 percent greater than white women. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Death rates for all cancers combined have fallen steadily in the United States since the 1990s, including among the four top cancer killers: lung, colon, breast and prostate, a new report by the nation's leading cancer groups said. The study, called the "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975 to 2001," found that death rates from all cancers combined dropped 1.1 percent annually from 1993 to 2001. |
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