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Article: American Cancer Society and American Heart Association Joint Statement on Cancer Statistics Report.
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- January 21, 2005
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DALLAS, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Some media reports about the American Cancer Society's new Cancer Statistics and its projections for cancer deaths in 2005 have led to confusion about cancer and heart disease, the diseases that claim the lives of most Americans. The Society released scientific data Wednesday indicating that since 1999 cancer has surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in Americans under the age of 85. Both diseases claim many lives, and when data is compared in various ways each could be considered the number one killer in some categories.
Heart disease remains the number one killer for the entire population as a whole (both men ...