Breast-cancer death rate drops almost 40 percent, saving 322,00 lives, study says

Breast cancer death rates declined almost 40 percent between 1989 and 2015, averting 322,600 deaths, the American Cancer Society reported Tuesday. Breast cancer death rates increased by 0.4 percent per year from 1975 to 1989, according to the study. After that, mortality rates decreased rapidly, for a 39 percent drop overall through 2015.  The report, the […]Related:Nobel in physiology, medicine awarded to three Americans for discovery of ‘clock genes’A model decided to tattoo her eyeball. She’s now partially blind and in ‘excruciating’ pain.FDA, industry step up efforts to avert drug shortages after Puerto Rico hurricane
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news