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Cancer mortality continues to drop despite rising incidence in women

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

For example, incidence rates in women 50-64 years of age have surpassed those in men, and rates in women under 50 are now 82% higher than their male counterparts, up from 51% in 2002.

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More Americans surviving cancer, but more younger Americans and women diagnosed: Research

The Hill

That marked an increase from 2002, when cancer incidence in women under 50 years was 51 percent higher than their male counterparts. In 2021, cancer incidence in women under 50 was 82 percent higher than in their male counterparts, with 141.1 cases per 100,000 people for women and 77.4 cases per 100,000 people for men.

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Fewer NC children dying at the hands of a parent or caregiver, new report shows

NC Health News

That initial 2002 report found that 378 North Carolina children were killed by parents or caregivers from 1985 to 2000. That amounted to 2.2 deaths per 100,000 children statewide. For military families, the rate was 5 deaths per 100,000 children during that same time period.

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This Bill Aims To Help Firefighters With Cancer. Getting It Passed Is Just the Beginning.

KFF Health News

Firefighters have a 14% higher chance of dying from cancer than the general population, according to a 2024 study, and the disease was responsible for 66% of career firefighter line-of-duty deaths from 2002 to 2019. The Los Angeles wildfires brought the fear generated by these statistics into bold relief.

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Rage has long shadowed American health care. It’s rarely produced big change.

News Medical Health Sciences

Among the biggest-grossing films in America in February 2002 were a war drama about American troops in Somalia ("Black Hawk Down"), an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie ("Collateral Damage"), and a future Oscar winner about a brilliant mathematician struggling with schizophrenia ("A Beautiful Mind").

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How dancing honey bees could help us save pollinators

Frontiers

In 2002, I was an unhappy graduate student in neurobiology without the vocabulary to understand why. That was when I stumbled across a paper by Ben-Shahar et al (2002) describing the effect of gene expression on the age-related transition of worker honey bees from nurses to foragers. What inspired you to become a researcher?

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Here’s How Data Analytics In Sports Is Changing The Game

Smart Data Collective

Oakland Athletics become famous in the 2002 season for a 20-game winning streak. Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team used sabermetrics to help recruit players for the team, despite having a shoestring budget.

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