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HEALTH BY THE NUMBERS BY ALLISON THOMAS

TAKING CANCER DOWN

25

%

Overall cancer death rates declined by 25
percent-translating to more than 2.1 million
fewer deaths-between 1991 and 2014. This
progress is reﬂected in falling death rates for
the four most common types of cancer.

COLORECTAL

50%

from 1975 to 2014

LUNG

BREAST

43%

38%

in men since 1990

from 1989 to 2014

LUNG

PROSTATE

17%

3%

in women since 2002

annually since 1999

SOURCE: American Cancer Society, Cancer Facts & Figures 2017

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two decades, but some areas of the country
are lagging. A study last year found that in
2014, up to 40 percent of cancer deaths
in men in the South could be attributed to
smoking. "More policies and programs are
needed to further increase smoking cessation and reduce initiation altogether,"
explains Dr. Peacock.
3. OBESITY: Obesity increases the risk of
several cancers, and its prevalence in U.S.
adults has more than doubled since the late
1970s. At the same time that the most common cancers are declining, three are on the
rise: liver, uterine and pancreatic. "These cancers, as well as colorectal, all link back to obesity," says Dr. Peacock. "Obesity has its own
diﬃculty in terms of providing education and
intervention, but it's important to continue
supporting research and educational eﬀorts."

WEBSITE

What You Need
to Know About
Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer for both men
and women. To promote
early detection and prevention, get screened. Learn
more about screening at
gwinnettmedicalcenter.
org/lungscreen.

ILLUSTRATION BY THINKSTOCK

How do we keep cancer death rates trending
downward? Kevin Peacock, MD, an oncologist with Gwinnett Medical Center, walks us
through three key challenges that will be
critical to continued progress.
1. HEALTHCARE ACCESS: The excess
risk of cancer death in black men, compared
with white men, dropped from 47 percent in
1990 to 21 percent in 2014. Increased access
to care among black men, including expanded
insurance coverage, was essential to that
progress. Having insurance is a key indicator
of whether people will get important screenings, too. In 2015, the number of adults who
were up to date on colorectal screening was
63 percent. But just 25 percent of those without insurance were current.
2. TOBACCO: Reductions in smoking
have driven cancer rates down in the past

http://gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/lungscreen

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