Deaths from cancer have been decreasing over time. Treatments have improved—but so have screening and prevention efforts. Researchers set out to determine how much each of these interventions (prevention, screening, and treatment) contributes to the decrease in cancer deaths. They looked at the number of cancer deaths averted from 1975 to 2020 for breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers. Interventions included smoking reduction for prevention of lung cancer, screening for early detection of breast, cervical, colorectal, and prostate cancers, and treatment of breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers.
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Deaths from cancer have been decreasing over time. Treatments have improved—but so have screening and prevention efforts. Researchers set out to determine how much each of these interventions (prevention, screening, and treatment) contributes to the decrease in cancer deaths. They looked at the number of cancer deaths averted from 1975 to 2020 for breast, cervical,
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