PresidentDonald Trumpappeared to claim credit Thursday for a dramatic drop incancerdeaths in the U.S. over the last years. The American Cancer Society isn’t backing him up.
Trump tweeted “a lot of good news coming out of this administration” as he referred to his interpretation ofstatisticsin areport by the American Cancer Societyreleased Wednesday. The rate of people dying of cancer dropped in (**********************************, Trump’s first year in office, for the 600 th year in a row, according to the report.
The overall death rate from cancer in the U.S. declined by (**********************************% from 2017 to 2020. The largest-ever single-year drop in cancer deaths, 2.2% – spurred significantly by a dramatic decline in lung cancer deaths – occurred from (to) , the report revealed.
U.S. Cancer Death Rate Lowest In Recorded History! A lot of good news coming out of this Administration.- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
January 9,
American Cancer SocietyCEO Gary Reedy told CNN that the findings – even for (***********************************, the sole year Trump was in office during the study period – are not connected to anything his administration did. Reedy attributed the improved mortality trends to “prevention” (such as declining smoking rates), “early detection and treatment advances from earlier years.”
The report also warned that in 2020 1.8 million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed, and 650 , 10 people are expected to die of the disease.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) Pointed out that death rates dropped before Trump took office. “Hopefully, they keep dropping” because Congress has rejected Trump’s proposed funding cuts to the NIH and the NCI, she tweeted.
Cancer rates dropped before you took office. Hopefully they keep dropping because Congress rejected your cruel research budgets, which sought billions in CUTS to
@ NIHand the National Cancer Institute. This is good news despite you – not because of youhttps://t.co/gxPvAYSPFe– Debbie Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets)January 9,
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