Reductions in smoking, better early detection and tailored treatments have led to a steady decline in cancer deaths over the past 25 years, according to the American Cancer Society (CA: Cancer J Clin 2019 Jan 8. [Epub ahead of print]).
A steady, 25-year decline has resulted in a 27% drop in the overall cancer mortality rate in the United States, translating to approximately 2.6 million fewer cancer deaths between 1991 and 2016.
The report estimates that in 2019, nearly 1.8 million new