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Cancer surpasses heart disease as leading killer

Case Management Weekly, January 28, 2005

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The leading cause of death for Americans under age 85 is no longer heart disease but cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. The organization reports that more than 476,000 Americans died from cancer in 2002. Heart disease killed 450,637 Americans the same year. The report says that cancer death rates have been declining since the early 1990s but the rates of prostate and breast cancer continue to rise.

Source: American Hospital Association



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