The cancer death rate fell 22% for men and 14% for women between 1990 and 2007.
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Over time, a number of clinical studies showed that asymptomatic women given regular mammography have a lower breast cancer death rate compared with women who do not get mammography.
Billionaire Peter Thiel, for example, argues that despite spectacular advances in computer-related fields, technological progress has actually stalled because the internal combustion engine still rules our highways, the cancer death rate has barely changed since 1971, and the top speed at which people can travel has ceased to improve.
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According to a report out this week from the American Cancer Society, the death rate from breast cancer went down 2.2 percent per year from 1990 to 2004.
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Among men with cancer that had spread beyond the prostate (metastatic cancer), the death rate in the first month was more than triple that in the general population.
This and social attitudes towards men's health mean that men have a lower life expectancy, a higher suicide rate and a higher death rate from cancer than women, the Men's Health Forum said.
Thomas Fleming, a statistician at the University of Washington, has argued in the New England Journal that though this is true, analyzing the data in that way doesn't quell all concerns that Vytorin might somehow increase the rate of cancer death.
Since routine screening was introduced in 1989, the death rate through cervical cancer has dropped by a third.
It has dramatically reduced the death rate from cervical cancer.
After the first month, in fact, the death rate among prostate-cancer patients during the PSA era was lower than it was among cancer-free men, according to the study.
Annwen Jones, of Target Ovarian Cancer, said despite improvements, the UK still lagged behind other European countries in terms of cancer survival and that the remaining high death rate among older women with the disease was of particular concern.
The death rate among women from oesophageal cancer was almost double the Western European average in 2009 at 96% higher.
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Psilakis cites studies showing that the people of Crete have the lowest death rate from heart disease and cancer in the world, and he credits the lifestyle and traditional diet that of the poor Cretan farmer.
The decrease in deaths from breast cancer accounted for 37 percent of the reduction in the death rate among women during the 15-year period.
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