Cancer cases to double. (Short Takes: News at Deadline).The good news is that Americans are expected to live longer in the next 50 years. The bad news is it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have more likely that many of them will develop cancer. A new study predicts that the number of Americans diagnosed annually with cancer will double over the next 50 years, jumping from 1.3 million to 2.6 million. This could be a very costly burden to the health care system. The study appeared in the journal Cancer and used newly compiled cancer data in conjunction conjunction, in astronomy conjunction, in astronomy, alignment of two celestial bodies as seen from the earth. Conjunction of the moon and the planets is often determined by reference to the sun. with demographic projections from the census census, periodic official count of the number of persons and their condition and of the resources of a country. In ancient times, among the Jews and Romans, such enumeration was mainly for taxation and conscription purposes. . There has been a steady decline in the U.S. death rate from cancer during the 1990s. Researchers estimate that the average death rate from all types of cancer fell by about I percent a year from 1993 to 1999. The four major deadly cancers are: * Lung * Colorectal co·lo·rec·tal adj. Relating to the colon and the rectum, or to the entire large bowel. colorectal pertaining to or of the nature of the colon and the rectum. * Breast * Prostate They account for just over half of all the cancer deaths in the U.S. |
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