Cancer Death Rates Drop 20 Percent Since 1991 ? CBS Baltimore

BALTIMORE?(WJZ) ??More than?a half a million people are predicted to die this year in America from all forms of cancer. Though the overall number is staggering,? the predicted deaths are showing a decrease from a high reached in 1991.

Mike Schuh reports.

The American Cancer Society says the three most commonly diagnosed cancers are: breast,? lung and colorectal.

Dr. Stephen Noga, the Medical Director of the Medstar Health Cancer Network,?says better education, early diagnosis and?treatments are causing the drop in the cancer rate and in cancer deaths.

Cancer deaths reached a high in 1991 and are down 20?percent?since then. Overall deaths are down, but the incidence of cancer is higher for melanoma, and cancers of the liver, thyroid and pancreas.

The Cancer Society predicts there will be 1,660,290 new cases of cancer in 2013.

To read the full report from the American Cancer Society, click here.

Source: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/01/22/for-the-first-time-since-1991-predicted-cancer-deaths-show-a-decrease/

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