Published on July 13, 2015
Updated on November 1, 2019
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Americans’ Risk of Dying From Cancer Is Falling, CDC Finds
THURSDAY, July 2, 2015 (U.S. News & World Report) — The risk that any one American will die from cancer — the cancer death rate — is going down, regardless of sex or race, a new government study reports.
However, because the United States has a growing aging population, the overall number of people dying from cancer is on the rise, officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
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