title: Cancer statistics highlight progress, challenges.
abstract: That the cancer death rate for middle-aged black men has dropped by more than half in 20 years, and that thyroid cancer remains the fastest-growing cancer diagnosis in the U.S., are among the striking findings in the American Cancer Society's annual report of cancer statistics.
mesh_terms: D044383:Black People; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008297:Male; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States; D001741:Black or African American