Cancer Deaths Decline

This CNN article attributes the decline in cancer deaths to earlier cancer detection and improved treatment. I would like to point out that the decline is also due to better informed doctors and patients. Any explanation for a decline in the number of deaths attributed to such a wide spread disease like cancer must take into account effective education programs for the public and for those in the medical profession. We are more aware of cancer than ever before, we are all taking steps to decrease our cancer risk, and a decline in cancer deaths can make the news. Good for us.