Source: Health Policy Institute of Ohio
Overall U.S. cancer death rates continue to drop among men, women, children, teens, and young adults, according to a recently released report (Source: “U.S. Cancer Death Rates across All Age Groups Continue on Downward Trend, New Study Shows,” USA Today, October 27, 2022).
The American Cancer Society’s Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer showed a decline in every major ethnic and racial group from 2015 to 2019. The findings are based on pre-COVID-19 pandemic data.
Lung cancer and melanoma deaths decreased the most for adults among cancers with declining death rates, according to the new report.
Earlier this year, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio released a Data Snapshot on Death Trends among Working-Age Ohioans and found that cancer is the only leading cause of death that decreased since 2007 to 2021 for Ohioans ages 15 to 64.