Report: Cancer Rates, Deaths Down Overall

(CBS)  Overall cancer rates are down in the last four years in almost every major demographic category according to a new joint report from national cancer and health groups.

Both the rate of new diagnoses for all cancers and the rate of death from all cancers were down in the most recent study period, from 2001 to 2006, according to the report released today by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Cancer Society (ACS), and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)

According to a press release, the drops were driven largely by declines in new cases and deaths from the three most common cancers in men (lung, prostate, and colorectal cancers) and for two of the three leading cancers in women (breast and colorectal cancer).

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New diagnoses for all types of cancer combined in the United States decreased an average of nearly 1 percent per year from 1999 to 2006 while cancer deaths fell 1.6 percent per year from 2001 to 2006. The declines were greater for men than for women, but men have higher overall cancer rates to begin with.

Doctors attribute the overall declines to public health campaigns advocating for lifestyle changes like quitting smoking and to better early detection of cancers. But the overall declines still represent a mix of cancers on the decline and cancers on the rise.

For men, the incidence of prostate, lung, oral cavity, stomach, brain, colon and rectal cancers was down, but new cases of kidney, liver, and esophageal cancer were up.

For women, breast, colorectal, uterine, ovarian, cervical and oral cavity cancers declined, but lung, thyroid, pancreatic, bladder, and kidney cancers were up.

The report focused particularly on colorectal cancer, the second biggest killer among men and women. Diagnoses of colorectal cancer are on the rise among men and women under 50, even though deaths are down.

That's attributable to lifestyle, said gastroenterologist Dr. Mark Pochapin, speaking with "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric. "People are overweight, they don't exercise, eat red meat, smoking, and I think we're forgetting how important those factors are in preventing disease, especially cancer."

There is some encouraging news. About 40 percent of people age 50 and over are getting screening colonoscopies. If that trend continues, the death rate will be cut by 36 percent by 2020.

"I think this is very good news, this report, because if 60 percent of people were to get screened, by 2020, half of all mortality from colorectal cancer would be prevented," Pochapin said. "That's thousands of people. You know, 150,000 people or so are diagnosed and really 50-plus thousand people die from this disease. So you're talking about so many people that could be affected and prevented from this deadly disease."

[Tdu1vme]

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[baileyccc]

The National Cancer Institute takes credit for this decline even thought the change is due to diet changes and not their questionable work. Women are not taking deadly mammograms is a large part of this reduction. Poisons in our medicine is a big culprit in the health of Americans. Change is coming to the medical community and the collapse will be deserve, The bubble is at hand. Posted by Baileyccc

[Stevenapoli7]

Deadly mammograms?

[pensacola8-2009]

During the Cold War, above-ground nuclear weapon tests were occurring and delivering the radioactive fallout around the world. Nations feeding themselves from fish were more insulated from cancer than nations feeding themselves from terrestrial plants and animals.

Medical x-ray exposures were also causing cancers. There was even a branch of medical testing called nuclear medicine that spawned cancer sensitivity. Today, even dentists abandon the annual dental x-rays because of increased thyroid cancer incidents up to 30 years after the exposure.

The AMA and FDA will not publicize the obvious. Some citizens with good memories will be able to recall the changes in X-ray usage found in the average doctor's office back in the 1960's and 1970's.

The cancer causing generation that is currently dying off has a multitude of unforgiven secrets to confess about their contribution to a world health nuisance we call cancer.

[payasyougo]

Give it a week and the scientists and EPA will skew this data to support the global warming threat

[sonofsummarex]

Cool!
The Republicans were right.
Not testing saves lives!

[writer10]

you are an idiot and a direct reflection of why people are so incredibly frustrated w/your extreme left wing party

[billgard15]

Smoke and mirrors--BO is following a convicted felons manual--and he attended the WH state dinner last week--IMPEACH

http://video.foxnews.com/12310623/the-one-thing-127

[stephand]

It's all Bush's fault!

[armyoftwelve]

Hee-hee, you must be a right wing conspirator!

[writer10]

Hahaha! as usual...