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Maryland Legislators See Latest Cancer Treatments
October 21, 2015
“Cancer is still a major public health problem, with 24,000 new cancer diagnosis in Maryland each year, but it has been dropping,” said Kevin J. Cullen, MD, director of the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. In 1990 Maryland had the highest cancer death rate of any state in the U.S. But now, he added, Maryland’s cancer incidence and mortality rates have dropped well below the national average. (View the photo gallery.)