Cancer Deaths Fall to Lowest Rate in Decades
- 26 percent fewer Americans died of cancer in 2015 than in 1991
- Disparities in death rates between races caused by wealth gaps
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Fewer Americans are getting cancer, and more of those who do are surviving the disease, according to a new study.
In 2015, the most recent year with available data, cancer deaths dropped to 158.6 per 100,000 people, according to a report released Thursday by the American Cancer Society. That rate is 26 percent lower than in 1991, according to the report, or about 2.4 million fewer deaths over that period.