CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 47, Issue 1 3-4, Copyright © 1997 by American Cancer Society
Giving life to numbers
M. P. Cunningham
The yearly cancer statistics article represents a snapshot of the evolving
trends in cancer events, providing a reference point for evaluating the
successes and failures of cancer control in the United States. Dr.
Cunningham, President of the American Cancer Society and a Surgical
Oncologist at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, provides an
overview of important observations from this year's data, including the
observation that for the first time overall cancer mortality is following a
downward trend in the United States.