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

People who have received a cancer diagnosis are living longer than ever, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Decades of cancer research have led to more effective ...

The U.S. cancer death rate has hit a milestone: It's been falling for at least 25 years, according to a new report. Lower smoking rates are translating into fewer deaths. Advances in early detection ...

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 ...