For the first time since cancer statistics were measured in the United States – the number of cancer deaths has dropped significantly.  From 2002-2003 – the number dropped for the first time ever with 369 fewer deaths reported during that one-year period.  Recently-completed data from 2004 (the latest available data) confirmed a trend from that period revealing 3,014 fewer deaths in 2004 from the year before.

Doctors saw decreases of all types of cancers among both men and women; the decline came most notably in cases of colorectal cancer which saw declines of over 1,000 cases among both sexes.

The death rate from cancer has steadily dropped since the early nineties – but increasing rates of aging and population had always outpaced the drop in deaths.

Though this seems to signal a positive trend in cancer deaths –- the decline is a drop in the bucket on the overall number of cancer deaths reported in 2004--- 553,888.

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Improvements in modern medicine continue to astonish and diminish the death toll for many diseases worldwide.  But mortality rates from heart disease and cancer are still cause for concern in this country.

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