Significantly more migraine sufferers than people without migraine had been hospitalized. The presence of other chronic conditions likely contributes to this high rate of use of health care services. Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in decline Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates have been declining since the mid-1980s, especially among women, according to a second article in Health reports . Nonetheless, this type of cancer still ranks third overall in new cases and in cancer deaths. Lung cancer accounts for the largest number of cancer deaths among men and women.
Prostate cancer ranks second in deaths among men, but first in new cases.
Among women, breast cancer ranks second in deaths, and first in new cases. Studies say that much of this reduction may be attributable to improved screening, which makes it possible to detect early cancers that are more easily treated. A similar downturn is seen in the incidence of colorectal cancer. An estimated 1 in 16 men and 1 in 18 women will develop colorectal cancer. Of the estimated 17,000 new cases of colorectal cancer diagnosed in 2000, about 6,500 people will die from the disease.