New Study Calculates Contribution of Smoking, Poor Diet, Obesity, and Other Modifiable Risk Factors to Cancer in the United States
Four in ten cancer cases & deaths linked to modifiable risk factors A new American Cancer Society study calculates the contribution of several modifiable risk factors to cancer occurrence, expanding and clarifying the role of known risk factors, from smoking to...
Breast Cancer Statistics, 2017: Black/white Mortality Differences Closing in Several States
Overall breast cancer death rates dropped 39 percent between 1989 and 2015, averting 322,600 breast cancer deaths during those 26 years. And while black women continue to have higher breast cancer death rates than whites nationally, death rates in several states are...
Tobacco Industry Profits Estimated $35 Billion With Almost 6 Million Annual Deaths
Tobacco use is one of the main preventable risk factors for cancer. In 2010, tobacco industry’s profit was equivalent to US $6,000 for each death caused by tobacco.
Report to the Nation Finds Continuing Declines in Cancer Death Rates Since the early 1990s
Death rates from all cancers combined for men, women, and children continued to decline in the United States between 2004 and 2008.