How Do Americans Die?

Discover how death arrives for various age groups, including insights on cancer deaths and their impact on mortality.

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The LA Times has compiled a list of how death arrives for Americans in different age groups. I take it this is publicly available information, but it's interesting to see it all laid out so directly. Despite much-touted decreases in cancer deaths, rampaging tumors still kill hundreds of thousands of people, all the way from infants to ancients.

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