While the president has signed increases in cancer research funding, the American Cancer Society says 'the impact of those increases are not reflected in the data contained in this report.'
On Thursday, The American Cancer Society released a new report which revealed that there has been a sharp decline in deaths from cancer between 2017 and 2018. When President Trump tried to take credit for this drop, pointing to legislature he'd previously signed, the American Cancer Society demurred.
The ACS noted, however, that death rates for some forms of cancer—such as breast and prostate cancer—are improving at a slower rate than in the past.
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