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Declining Death Rates Reflect Progress against Cancer

BACKGROUND: The success of the “war on cancer” initiated in 1971 continues to be debated, with trends in cancer mortality variably presented as evidence of progress or failure. We examined temporal trends in death rates from all-cancer and the 19 most common cancers in the United States from 1970–20...

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Autores principales: Jemal, Ahmedin, Ward, Elizabeth, Thun, Michael
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20231893
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009584