WASHINGTON: The risk of dying from cancer in the United States has declined 20 percent over the past two decades, according to the American Cancer Society's annual report out on Tuesday.

However, cancer, a complex disease that has largely eluded attempts at a cure, will remain a top killer in 2014, taking some 1,600 US lives per day, it warned.

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