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Fewer people in the U.S. are dying from cancer now than in the past, mainly because fewer people smoke, cancer is caught earlier, and treatments have gotten better.

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Cancer statistics, 2025

Cross-Sectional Study
Human
2025 Jan-Feb

The study says exactly what the claim does: cancer deaths dropped a lot since 1991 because people smoked less, found cancer earlier, and got better treatments, saving about 4.5 million lives.

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