POSTED BY BOSTON UNIVERSITY It’s a grim projection: in 2024, for the first time ever, the United States is expected to surpass more than two million new cases of cancer in a year. The bleak forecast comes from the American Cancer Society’s latest annual cancer statistics report, released earlier this month. According to the society,...
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Cancer Deaths on Decline, But New Cancer Cases to Hit Record High This Year
Overall cancer mortality in the United States has continued to decline, with more than 4 million cancer deaths averted since 1991, according to the 2024 American Cancer Society (ACS) annual report on cancer trends. The “good news is that we are continuing to see a decline in cancer mortality,” which follows the steady decline we’ve...