Investigators examined age-standardized cancer mortality rates by “urbanicity” of county of residence to determine whether trends in mortality shifted from 1969 to 2023.

Cancer In Low-Income Countries: The Global Burden of Disease 2023 study, published in The Lancet, reveals some startling ...

Rural residents face an increasingly larger share of cancer deaths in the U.S., with the gap continuing to widen between them ...

A study published today in JAMA found that cancer mortality rates among young people have decreased across nearly all types of the disease. The number of deaths from colorectal cancer, though, is ...

There was a shift in the highest all-cancer mortality rates from large metro areas to nonmetro areas with the smallest urban ...

Incidence and mortality are rising in cohorts born after the 1950s, with three-quarters of colorectal cancers under 50 diagnosed at advanced stage, limiting curability. Preventable mortality is ...

Cancer statistics have reached new heights — in good and not-so-good ways. The American Cancer Society (ACS) released its annual report on cancer trends this week, showing for the first time that more ...

New national estimates reveal historic gains in cancer survival and millions of deaths averted, while exposing stark inequities and warning that policy decisions today could determine whether progress ...

From 1991 to 2015, the cancer death rate dropped about 1.5 percent a year, resulting in a total decrease of 26 percent — about 2.4 million fewer deaths than would have occurred had the rate remained ...