#mortality

Special section on adults ages 20 to 49 shows higher cancer incidence and mortality for women than men.

The cancer death rate dropped by 27 percent over 25 years.

Mammograms and better treatment are credited with averting 400,000 to 600,000 cancer deaths since 1989.

Cancer mortality declined by 27 percent over the past 25 years.

New treatments for melanoma approved over the last decade appear to be improving survival and reducing mortality rates.

Eating healthy pre- and post-diagnosis is associated with longer survival.

In this state, Black women die of this preventable cancer at nearly double the rate of white women.

Regardless of race, ethnicity or nationality, men are more likely than women to get cancer.

Smoking, physical inactivity and food insecurity are among eight county-level factors that account for income-related disparities.

Cancer burden rises to 18.1 million new cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths in 2018.

Forty-five years since its launch, SEER can become an invaluable resource for performing and informing clinical and even basic research.

Major disparities in socioeconomic status could be to blame.

How do you handle the world of what if? What do you do to help yourself not go down the road of negativity? For me, it’s staying busy.

In our brain-tumor community, each of us spend countless hours wondering what we will do when we receive news of a “bad scan.”

By 2030, women around the world will be more likely to die of lung cancer than breast cancer.

This fear isn’t related to cancer alone. It’s a realization that part of being human is to know that we will someday pass on.