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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 1998;279:1153.

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The overall incidence rate of US cancer cases inched downward in the 1990s, reversing a nearly 20-year trend, according to the latest report from the American Cancer Society, the NCI, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

After increasing by more than 1% per year from 1973 to 1990, cancer incidence rates for all sites combined decreased an average of 0.7% per year from 1990 to 1995. Cancer mortality also dropped an average of 0.5% per year during that latter period (Cancer. 1998;82:1197-1207).

However, the downward trend did not prevail for all groups and all cancers. For example, the overall cancer rate showed no change in Asian and Pacific Islander women, and the rate of new cases actually rose for black men. While breast cancer cases leveled off (except for black women) and prostate cancer cases have dropped (except for black men), rates . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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