Cancer Death Rates Continue Steady Decline

According to the National Cancer Institute, cancer death rates have declined steadily declined over the last two decades among men and women and across all ethnic groups. The report details how from 1999 to 2015, the overall death rates from cancer decreased by 1.8 percent per year among men and 1.4 percent among women. In the last four years of the time period, the study - a joint effort among the National Cancer Institute, CDC, the American Cancer Society and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries - shows that the rates decreased for 11 of the 18 most common cancer types in men and for 14 of the 20 most common cancer types in women. Click here for the report.

• The House last week passed S. 292, the Childhood Cancer STAR Act, by voice vote, that will help advance both research on and treatments for pediatric cancer, click here.