Although the population in the United States is aging, it seems that deaths due to cancer are dropping, say researchers. This decline has been occurring over the past 50 years.
A study published recently in the journal Cancer Research said:
Age-specific cancer mortality rates have been steadily declining in the United States since the early 1950s, beginning with children and young adults and now including all age groups. During the second half of the 20th century, each successive decade of births from 1925 to 1995 experienced a lower risk of cancer death than its predecessor at virtually every age for which such …read more