Cancer Death Rates

Obesity may account for 20% of all cancer deaths in US women and 14% in US men. That means 90,000 cancer deaths could be prevented each year if Americans could only maintain a normal, healthy body weight.

Three new items of interest in the health field concerning cancer.

The National Cancer Institute has good news to release today, as the NCI's annual report shows that the cancer death rate dropped nearly twice as quickly during 2002-2004 than during 1993-2002.