A new report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows that rates of cancer deaths in the United States continue the downward trend of the last two decades. The new figures show that over the past ten years of available data (up to 2008), cancer deaths have fallen by more than 1% a year in men and women for all but one of the racial/ethnic groups in the US, the exception being American Indians/Alaska Natives, among whom rates have remained stable.
The result is that more than a million cancer deaths have been avoided in the last 20 years, the ACS told the press.
The figures are in the ACS annual report, which was published online in the 4 January issue of the society's journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
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