The Nation - News from Feb. 14, 1985
One in three persons born this year will eventually develop cancer, chiefly because he or she will live long enough to reach the ages when cancer is more likely, the American Cancer Society projects. About 22% of those born this year are expected to die of the disease.
The one-in-three projection is up from about one in four previously calculated for persons born in 1970, essentially because of longer life expectancy, Lawrence Garfinkel of the society said. Long-term declines in death from the nation’s top killer, heart and blood-vessel disease, have let more persons live long enough to get cancer instead, he said.
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