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Lindsey Tanner - Associated Press, Winchester Star: Health
Tue, 01/24/2017 - 1:01pm

Americans in certain struggling parts of the country are dying from cancer at rising rates, even as the cancer death rate nationwide continues to fall, an exhaustive new analysis has found.In parts of the country that are relatively poor, and have higher rates of obesity and smoking, cancer death rates rose nearly 50 percent, while wealthier pockets of the country saw death rates fall by nearly half.Better screening and treatment have contributed to the improvement in [...]

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