mr.henry's Articles In Health & Medicine
February 20, 2008 by mr.henry
U.S. cancer deaths rose by more than 5,000 in 2005, a somewhat disappointing reversal of a two-year downward trend, the American Cancer Society said in a report issued Wednesday. The group counted 559,312 people who died from cancer. The cancer death rate among the overall population continued to fall, but only slightly, after a couple of years of more dramatic decline. In 2005, there were just under 184 cancer deaths per 100,000 people, down from nearly 186 the previous year. Experts ...