A new report from the American Cancer Society finds the nationwide death rate from cancer has fallen 27 percent between 1991 and 2016. That means there were 2.6 million fewer cancer deaths in that period than expected.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks about the report’s findings with Dr. Darrell Gray (@DMGrayMD), deputy director of the Center for Cancer Healthy Equity at Ohio State University.
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