US death rates are falling for many types of cancer, such as lung cancer and melanoma, a new report finds. But America's collective lack of exercise and poor diet may have driven increases in other cancers, including pancreatic and breast cancer.
US death rates from cancer continued to decline from 2014 to 2018, driven mostly by drops in deaths from lung cancer and melanoma, according to a new report published Thursday.
But America's collective lack of exercise and poor diet may have driven increases in certain other cancers, including pancreatic cancer and breast cancer, the report found.Breast cancer tops lung cancer as most diagnosed cancer in the world, new report saysOverall deaths from cancer declined 2.2% in men and 1.7% in women over four years. Declines were consistent across all ethnicities and races, the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer found.
Cancer incidence rates increased for pancreatic, kidney and female breast cancers, which researchers suggested may be linked to a"staggering" rise in obesity and total sitting time."We see that most of the cancer types that are increasing, those are obesity-related cancers," Islami said. "We see that increasing trend for many of the obesity-related cancers in those younger ages," he said.