WRite this in your own words please!!
"We always want to see the grand-slam home run," said Dr. Martin Abeloff, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. "But what we are seeing are incremental gains."
Abeloff added: "We are clearly on the right path. . . . We are seeing that cancer is really beginning to convert to a chronic disease."
Among men, deaths from lung cancer, prostate cancer and colorectal cancer dropped the most. In women, the greatest decline was recorded in breast and colorectal cancers.
Experts attributed the progress to a variety of forces, including improved screening, a decline in smoking and the development of better drugs and therapies
The absolute drop in the number of cancer deaths continues a trend that started in the 1990s, when cancer death rates started to level off and then decline, said Elizabeth Ward, director of surveillance for the American Cancer Society
2007-01-18 13:25:05 · 6 answers · asked by claudia#1 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
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2007-01-18 13:34:07 · update #1
We don't always get to the top by just landing there, said Dr Martin Abeloff, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. "Usually we have to climb every inch."
Abeloff added: "Medicinal advancements have started to pay off.... what was once thought to be an insurmountable disease is starting to show cracks."
Colorectal, prostate, and lung cancers have shown a dramatic decrease in men. Women have seen remarkable decreases in breast and colorectal cancer.
Education and advancements in the medical fields that cover these diseases are being heralded as major reasons for the positive outlook.
Elizabeth Ward, director of surveillance for the American Cancer Society, noted cancer deaths have been on the decline since the 1990's.
2007-01-18 13:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by sean1201 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Doctors believe that, slowly but surely, cancer deaths are on a decline. Starting in the 1990s, better treatments, earlier detection, and a decline in risky behaviors such as smoking, have led to a higher survival rate for cancer patients. Colorectal cancer deaths have declined in both men and women.
Just be sure to attribute this to your original source.
2007-01-18 13:35:32 · answer #2 · answered by princessmikey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many Specialist's in the field of Cancer are statistically proving that there has been a drastic decline in the fatality rate of this disease. It is being attributed to the decrease in the number of those who smoke, advances being made in the screening process, and the greatly improved therapy's and medication which have been discovered. Cancer is beginning to be looked upon as a chronic disease rather than a deadly one.
2007-01-18 13:48:01 · answer #3 · answered by Jazzy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
how about YOu do it! i think that deserves those bonus points
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OMG Johns Hopkins is in Baltimore and I live in Baltimore. So i would say Johns Hopkins, which is in the city i live, has a person who says stuff about grand-slams. They are on the right path with cacer. many cancers. YAY
2007-01-18 13:29:33 · answer #4 · answered by Heyhey 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sweetie, what that means is, the doctors wished that all cancers could be cured with one single treatment. (Unfortunately, because we are all different the treatments are not the same) anyway improvement has occured and many more people are survivors and better health and screenings have helped many people. Now fill in the blanks.
2007-01-18 13:36:05 · answer #5 · answered by silver 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The death rates in cancer, particularly the cancers mentioned, continues to fall. This means they are better able to diagnos and treat cancer.
2007-01-18 13:31:35 · answer #6 · answered by Jeffrey S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋