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2. List of cancer mortality rates in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Cancer mortality rates are determined by the relationship of a population's health and lifestyle with their healthcare system. In the United States during 2013–2017, the age-adjusted mortality rate for all types of cancer was 189.5/100,000 for males, and 135.7/100,000 for females. [1] Below is an incomplete list of age-adjusted mortality ...

3. Cervical cancer - Wikipedia

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   Cervical cancer is the 12th-most common cancer in women in the UK (around 3,100 women were diagnosed with the disease in 2011), and accounts for 1% of cancer deaths (around 920 died in 2012). [136] With a 42% reduction from 1988 to 1997, the NHS-implemented screening programme has been highly successful, screening the highest-risk age group (25 ...

4. Cervical cancer screening rates are dropping. Here's why that ...

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   While cervical cancer was once one of the most deadly cancers for American women, deaths from the disease have dropped by more than 50% since the 1970s due to prevention awareness and screening ...

5. Cancer survival rates - Wikipedia

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   In males, researchers suggest that the overall reduction in cancer death rates is due in large part to a reduction in tobacco use over the last half century, estimating that the reduction in lung cancer caused by tobacco smoking accounts for about 40% of the overall reduction in cancer death rates in men and is responsible for preventing at least 146,000 lung cancer deaths in men during the ...

6. Pancreatic cancer - Wikipedia

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   Globally, pancreatic cancer is the 11th most-common cancer in women and the 12th most-common in men. [10] The majority of recorded cases occur in developed countries . [ 10 ] People from the United States have an average lifetime risk of about 1 in 67 (or 1.5%) of developing the disease, [ 114 ] slightly higher than the figure for the UK. [ 115 ]

7. Women will now be notified about breast density after ... - AOL

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   Nearly half of women over 40 have dense breasts, which bring an elevated risk of breast cancer and also tend to mask it in screenings. Women will now be notified about breast density after mammograms.

8. Black women are more likely than white women to die of all ...

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   For the most common subtype, HR-positive, HER2-negative, which accounts for 60% to 70% of all breast cancer diagnoses, Black women were 50% more likely to die from the disease than white women ...

9. Risk factors for breast cancer - Wikipedia

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   Age is the biggest risk factor for breast cancer. The risk of getting breast cancer increases with age. A woman is more than 100 times more likely to develop breast cancer in her 60s than in her 20s. [4] The risk over a woman's lifetime is, according to one 2021 review, approximately "1.5% risk at age 40, 3% at age 50, and more than 4% at age 70."