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Allyson Felix, track and field star, joins Hear Her campaign to raise awareness about maternal mortality

CDC is pleased to announce that Allyson Felix, an elite track and field athlete and U.S. Olympian, has joined the Hear Her campaign to share her story and raise awareness about urgent warning signs that could indicate life-threatening complications during and in the year after pregnancy.

Higher Daily Step Count Linked with Lower All-cause Mortality

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United States Cancer Statistics: 1999-2010 Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report Released

The current report includes cancer cases diagnosed and cancer deaths that occurred from 1999 through 2010. Each year of data includes more than 1 million cases of invasive cancer.

Video: Cancer Incidence and Mortality Through 2020

In this video abstract, CDC epidemiologist Dr. Hannah Weir talks about her work to project the number of new cancer cases and deaths to the year 2020. Cancer rates are decreasing or stabilizing, but the number of cancer cases and deaths will continue to increase. Dr. Weir discusses why we still have work to do … Continue reading Video: Cancer Incidence and Mortality Through 2020

Annual Report to the Nation: Overall cancer mortality continues to decline

The latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that, for all cancer sites combined, cancer death rates continued to decline in men, women, and children in the United States from 1999 to 2016.