Daily Taos News

Researchers say the rates of people dying of cancer - are going down. THe american cancer society has come out with its annual report... it found that cancer deaths among men dropped by 1-point-8-percent a year between 2000 and 2009, and 1-point-4-percent a year for women. The drops are due mostly to gains against some of the leading types of cancer -- long, colorectal, breast and prostate cancers. Cancer deaths began slowly dropping during the 1990s.