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US cancer death rate sees largest-ever single-year drop, report says
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8, 2020 (CNN)—The rate of people dying from cancer in the United States continued to decline for the 26th year in a row, according to a new American Cancer Society report.
From 2016 to 2017, the United States saw its largest-ever single-year drop in overall cancer deaths, a 2.2% plunge spurred in part by a sharp decline in lung cancer deaths, according to the report, published Wednesday in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
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Beyond gaming: Meet the experts turning your donations into action
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8, 2020 (Prevent Cancer Foundation)—Watch this year’s panel at AGDQ spotlighting a new portable breast screening device in Nigeria, cervical cancer screening devices in Peru and lung cancer screening innovations in Poland — showing how your dollars make a difference in cancer prevention and early detection.
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