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Posted on February 13, 2009May 23, 2013

There’s Good News Tonight

Cancer mortality drops for the first time in history! The age adjusted cancer death rate declined from 1990 to 1995 by 3.1% from 135.0 per 100,000 population to 129.8, the lowest it has been since 25 years ago. Further, the decline is accelerating and continuing at about 2% per year. Continue reading “There’s Good News Tonight”

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