cancer deaths rates dropping

The rate of cancer deaths in the country has steadily declined in the last three decades, according to a recent report in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Texas has seen a similar decline.
According to the Texas Cancer Registry, the statewide age-adjusted cancer death rate has slowly declined from 1990 to 2006, the most recent year numbers are available.
It dropped from 211 deaths per 100,000 in 1990 to 175.1 deaths per 100,000 in 2006.
That’s a 20 percent drop in the 17-year span.
In the 26 counties of the Panhandle, the decline has been less noticeable, according to the Texas Cancer Registry.
The rate dropped from 198.5 deaths per 100,000 in 1990 to 188.8 deaths per 100,000 in 2006. That’s a decline of 5 percent.
The Cancer Research journal also found younger people have experienced the biggest decline in deaths.
The World Health Organization expects the cancer death rate will surpass that of heart disease by 2010. While both rates have been declining recently, heart disease rates have been declining more rapidly.
While cancer incidence rates continue to grow, the mortality rate has decreased.