Study Finds Missing Regular Mammogram Increases Risk of Death from Breast Cancer

by American Cancer Society | Mar 4, 2021

Attendance at regular mammography screening substantially reduces the risk of dying from breast cancer, according to a large study of over half a million women, funded by the American Cancer Society and published in the journal Radiology. Researchers said women who...

New Study Calculates Contribution of Smoking, Poor Diet, Obesity, and Other Modifiable Risk Factors to Cancer in the United States

by American Cancer Society | Mar 8, 2018

Four in ten cancer cases & deaths linked to modifiable risk factors A new American Cancer Society study calculates the contribution of several modifiable risk factors to cancer occurrence, expanding and clarifying the role of known risk factors, from smoking to...

Breast Cancer Statistics, 2017: Black/white Mortality Differences Closing in Several States

by American Cancer Society | Jan 24, 2018

Overall breast cancer death rates dropped 39 percent between 1989 and 2015, averting 322,600 breast cancer deaths during those 26 years. And while black women continue to have higher breast cancer death rates than whites nationally, death rates in several states are...

Tobacco Industry Profits Estimated $35 Billion With Almost 6 Million Annual Deaths

by American Cancer Society | Aug 8, 2012

Tobacco use is one of the main preventable risk factors for cancer. In 2010, tobacco industry’s profit was equivalent to US $6,000 for each death caused by tobacco. 43 trillion cigarettes have been smoked in the last decade. The Tobacco Atlas, Fourth Edition, and its...

Report to the Nation Finds Continuing Declines in Cancer Death Rates Since the early 1990s

by American Cancer Society | Jul 25, 2012

Death rates from all cancers combined for men, women, and children continued to decline in the United States between 2004 and 2008, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2008. The overall rate of new cancer diagnoses, also known as...