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Show Cancer Mortality On The Decline Encouraging indications of a decline in cancer mortality are reported by statisticins who base their findings upon the postwar experience of millions of industrial indus-trial policyholders. Favorable developments in the cancer picture are most evident,, the statisticians point out, when the recent trend of mortality is studied according to whether the primary site of the disease is accessible ac-cessible or inaccessible to diagnosis. diag-nosis. For the accessible sites as a group, both men and women in the insurance experience recorded rec-orded declines in the death rate from 1946-47 to 1949-50, men by 2.4 per cent and women by 7.2. There was a reduction in female mortality from almost all the accessible ac-cessible specific types of cancer. In the case of the inaccessible sites as a whole, the death rate among women declined 1.1 per cent, but, on the other hand, that among men showed an increase of 4 per cent. However, both sexes showed decreases for such specific speci-fic sites as the stomach, intestines, intes-tines, other digestive organs, bladder, and liver. Considerable increases in death rates were recorded for cancers of the lungs and other respiratory areas. Greatly intensified efforts have been put forth on all fronts since the end of the wa: to fight cancer. These have included the expansion expan-sion of diagnostic facilities, the opening of more special cancer hospitals, and intensified cancer research. In addition, the statisticians statisti-cians state "great emphasis is still placed upon early recognition recogni-tion and treatment of the disease." |