India, May 2 -- The National Institutes of Health's latest annual report shows a steady decline in cancer death rates in the United States. However, incidence rates and diagnoses are on the rise, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.
Overall death rates from cancer declined steadily among both men and women from 2001 through 2022, even during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, the report says.
Progress in reducing cancer deaths overall is largely the result of declines in both incidence and death rates for lung cancer and several other smoking-related cancers, the researchers noted. New diagnoses and deaths from lung cancer, for example, have declined in both men and women over the past 20 years....