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Nearly 123,000 cancer deaths, or close to 30% of all U.S. cancer deaths, were due to cigarette smoking in 2019.

The “Grease” star had been fighting stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. Learn more about the illness in our Breast Cancer Basics.

The pandemic also disrupted medical care and had an indirect effect on other causes of death.

However, when compared to the general population, the suicide risk for cancer patients remains elevated, finds a new study.

Cancer-related deaths climbed 3.2% from 2019 to 2020, the first year of COVID-19, a new report shows.

Lack of physical activity and sitting more than eight hours a day was associated with a higher risk for death.

Beginning January 1, patients in California no longer have to wait 15 days between required requests for death-inducing drugs.

“Health is about more than the individual. It’s something that people do together.”

Those on the margins of society or with life-limiting illnesses and other social determinants offer a wisdom that often goes unrecognized.

Screening Black women for breast cancer starting at age 40 would decrease deaths by 57%.

Death rates for most cancers continue to decline.

But individuals who sought surgery soon after diagnosis had better outcomes.

A new study has found that far more ancient Britons developed cancer than previously believed.

The update ensures that more minorities and women with lighter smoking histories now qualify for screening.

Coronavirus killed more Americans in the past year than any cause of death in 2019, other than heart disease and cancer.

The decrease is largely due to improved lung cancer treatment, but the impact of COVID-19 is not yet known.