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Balazs Halmos: 4.1% annual drop in lung cancer deaths! If we keep this pace (or speed up) – can u imagine what might happen?
Oct 15, 2023, 17:54

Balazs Halmos: 4.1% annual drop in lung cancer deaths! If we keep this pace (or speed up) – can u imagine what might happen?

Balazs Halmos, Associate Director for Clinical Science at Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center, shared a post by NCI Cancer Stats on LinkedIn:

“4.1% annual drop in lung cancer deaths!

  • smoking cessation
  • early detection
  • better diagnostic tools
  • safer surgery/radiotherapy
  • biomarkers
  • improved systemic treatment
  • better supportive care
  • stronger advocacy

If we keep this pace (or speed up) – can u imagine what might happen?”

Quoting NCI Cancer Stats’s post:

The rate of new Lung Cancer cases fell by 2.0% each year from 2010-2019 and the death rate fell by 4.1% each year from 2011-2020. 2020 data is excluded from trend line because of COVID-19 healthcare disruptions. See our Cancer Stat Facts sheet to learn more.”

Source: Balazs Halmos/Twitter and NCI Cancer Stats/Twitter