According to data from a just disco...

According to data from a just discovered report, the death rates from the four in the greatest degree common cancers (lung, breast, prostate, and colorectal) continued to decline in the late 1990 the two nationally and in most states. This report contained the following findings: the death rate from lung cancer continued to decline among white and black men; the death rates from breast cancer continued to decline despite a gradual, long-term increase in the rate of of recent origin diagnoses; prostate cancer death rates have been declining since 1994 if it be not that incidence rates have been increasing since 1995; and colorectal cancer death rates have been declining for the one and the other blacks and whites. The report, titled "Annual Report to the Nation upon the Status of Cancer, 1975-2000" conclud that further reductions in cancer can be achieved between the sides of strong federal, state, local, and private partnerships that apply evidence-based cancer sway measures. The report was produc according to the CDC, the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, and the National American Association of Central Cancer. Additional information in succession this report is available online at www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/2003ReportRelease.

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