Cancer mortality fell by 2.1% between 2018 and 2019, compared to a 2.4% relative decrease in the year prior, according to the American Cancer Society’s 2022 Cancer Statistics report.
At a lecture at Yale Cancer Center recently, Robert A. Winn brandished a copy of a 32-year old booklet titled “Cancer at a Crossroads: A Report to Congress for the Nation,” using it as a show-and-tell prop in arguing that America’s cancer program is once again at a crossroads and therefore in urgent need of strategic thinking (The Cancer Letter, April 10, 2026).
