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Cancer death rates declining, new report says, but diagnosis rates are on the rise for women
The rate of women up-to-date on cervical cancer screenings dropped from 74.8% in 2019 to 73.4% in 2021, leaving more women at risk of late detection of disease.
Incidence rates for several cancers, including uterine, breast, and liver cancers among women, are rising, as reported by the American Cancer Society.
Middle-Aged women now have a slightly higher cancer risk than men, and young women are nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with cancer as young men, according to the report.
Black women have a 40% higher rate of death from breast cancer than White women, with their uterine cancer death rate being double that of White women.
Later and fewer pregnancies as well as alcohol use are partly responsible for this phenomenon, according to the results of a large study carried out in more than 300,000 women.