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Article: Cancer kills more people than heart disease now
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- January 20, 2005
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For the first time, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the top
killer of Americans under 85, health officials said Wednesday. The
good news is that deaths from both are falling, but improvement has
been more dramatic for heart disease.
"It's dropping fast enough that another disease is eclipsing it,"
said Dr. Walter Tsou, president of the American Public Health
Association.
The single biggest reason: fewer smokers.
The news is contained in the American Cancer Society's annual
statistical report, released Wednesday. In 2002, the most recent year
for which information is available, 476,009 Americans under 85 died
of cancer compared with 450,637 who died of heart disease.
That trend actually ...