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Cancer rates falling in the US

01/06/12

A study recently released by the American Cancer Society reported that cancer deaths are continuing to fall from year to year.

Cancer deaths fell a reported 1.8 percent per year for men and 1.6 percent per year for women between 2004 and 2008, the report stated.

The decrease in fatalities from cancer is attributed to advances in cancer screening and treatment, which has prevented more than a million deaths since the early 1990s, according to the report.

"The big news this year is that cancer deaths are still going down," said Dr. Raymond DuBois, provost and executive vice president at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. "It's not hitting the ball out of the park, but it had been going up several years prior to that. It's sign now that it is on the decline."

This year, the American Cancer Society is projecting that about 1.7 million people will be newly diagnosed with some form of cancer and 577,190 people will die from the disease.

With the probability of developing cancer being 44 percent for men and 38 percent for women, Americans might look to life insurance to take care of unexpected financial burdens that might be placed on dependents and other loved ones.

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