DOTmed November 24, 2021
Mortality rates among all cancers combined have dropped by 27% since 1971 and by 32% since 1991, when mortality was at its highest.
That’s what the American Cancer Society found in its new analysis that compared rates from both years to those of 2019. Mortality in 12 of 15 types individually went down. Cervical and stomach cancer, for instance, saw as much as a 70% decrease.
The decline has been attributed to the National Cancer Act of 1971, which allocated substantial resources to the National Cancer Institute as part of its aim to make defeating cancer a national priority. It has helped NCI increase its annual budget 25-bold, from $227 million then to $6.01 billion now. Largely, it helped increase...
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