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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 27 > U.S. cancer death rate drops again in 2006

U.S. cancer death rate drops again in 2006

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
May 27, 2009

ATLANTA — The U.S. cancer death rate fell again in 2006, a new analysis shows, continuing a slow downward trend that experts attribute to declines in smoking, earlier detection and better treatment.

About 560,000 people died of cancer that year, according to an American Cancer Society....

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