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Friday, April 11, 2014

CDC: Rate of invasive cancer in US declines.

FOX News (3/28, Rettner) carries a LiveScience story reporting that “rates of new cancer cases in the United States have fallen slightly in recent years, according to a new” CDC report to be published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The report indicated that “between 2009 and 2010, the rate of invasive cancer...dropped from 459 new cases per 100,000 people, to 446 new cases per 100,000 people.”

        HealthDay (3/28, Preidt) reports, “By tumor type, rates of advanced disease were highest for cancers of the prostate (126 per 100,000), female breast (119 per 100,000), lung and bronchial airways (62 per 100,000) and colon/rectum (40 per 100,000).” The data indicated that “prostate, lung and colorectal cancers were the most common advanced tumors among men, while breast, lung, colorectal and uterine cancers were most common among women.”

        Medscape (3/28, Mulcahy) reports that the data indicated that “rates of new cancer cases were higher in men than in women (503 vs 405 per 100,000), highest in black patients (455 per 100,000), and ranged by state.”


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