[Oradlist] MEDHP-SEC: News Article: Drop in U.S. cancer death rates seen mainly in highly educated individuals (fwd)

[Gibbs, S Julian]

Some interesting and potentially meaningful data!
Julian

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seen mainly in highly educated individuals


>From another list server.  Apparently, radiation exposure is not a
cancer risk.  Dumbness is.

-- John
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Drop in U.S. cancer death rates seen mainly in highly educated
individuals
By Reuters Health
July 9, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - From 1993 to 2001, death rates from
common cancers fell in the U.S., but this decline was primarily
confined to people with at least 16 years of education, according
to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for
July 16.

"The recent reductions in death rates from major cancers in the
U.S. have bypassed less educated working people, suggesting that
persons in lower socioeconomic groups have not yet benefited
equivalently from recent advances in prevention, early detection,
and treatment of the major fatal cancers," Dr. Ahmedin Jemal, from
the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, and colleagues conclude.

Using data from the National Center for Health Statistics and from
the U.S. Bureau of Census Current Population Survey, the
researchers found that death rates from cancers of the lung,
breast, prostate, and colon/rectum generally fell significantly in
every race and sex stratum in people with 16 or more years of
education.

For instance, in subjects with this level of educational
attainment, colorectal cancer mortality fell by 2.4% to 4.8%
annually from 1993 to 2001.

The one exception, however, was lung cancer in black women for whom
death rates held steady during the study period.
With fewer than 12 years of education, by contrast, cancer death
rates generally remained stable or even increased, as was seen with
lung cancer in white women and colon cancer in black men. However,
in white women with breast cancer, mortality fell by 1.4% annually.

J Natl Cancer Inst 2008;100.
Last Updated: 2008-07-08 16:01:05 -0400 (Reuters Health)
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