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The decline is partly due to a healthier lifestyle, improved early detection and medical advances in cancer therapy. Carlo La Vecchia from the Department of Clinical Sciences at the University of Milan and his co-authors have now published their study online in the “Annals of Oncology” of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO).
The decline in mortality is most striking for stomach cancer, followed by lung cancer (minus 10.24 percent in men), leukaemia, breast and prostate cancer and colon cancer.
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