U.S. Cancer Survival Rates Rising -- Report
Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:18 PM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More Americans than ever before are surviving cancer and rates in general are falling, mostly because fewer people are smoking, the American Cancer Society reported on Wednesday.
The group predicts that 1.372 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in 2005 and 570,280 will die of it. This does not include a million cases of two not very threatening forms of skin cancer called basal and squamous cell carcinoma.
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