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US Cancer Death Rate Still Falling, Just

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  • Lung cancer overtook breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in women in 1987. It is expected to account for 26 per cent of all cancer deaths in women in 2008.
  • Lung cancer rates are falling in men and appear to be leveling off in women, after increasing for several decades

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