Sun Journal (Newspaper) - January 18, 2007, New Bern, North Carolina Sun Thursday Janua CHILLY SAILING Liz Journal Despite cloudy skies and temperatures Wednesday a lone boat heads out of Oriental Harbor Todays high is expected to be near 50 with a significant chance of rain and thunderstorms Tide is turning on killer disease A cause for celebration for doctors politicians not to mention citizens By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press ATLANTA tide has turned in the nations battle against cancer Cancer deaths in the Unit ed States dropped for the sec ond year in a row health of reported Wednesday confirming that the trend is real and becoming more pro too The news was cause for celebration among doctors and politicians Its very exciting said Dr Felice a cancer physician at New Weill Cornell Medical Cen ter When we saw the first decline the number wasnt that enormous But once you start to see a trend like this Number of cancer deaths in thousands 290 Men 270 250 Women US Cancer deaths drop Cancer deaths in the United States have dropped for a second straight year while more than 14 million new cases and 559000 deaths are projected this year the American Cancer Society reported 91 93 95 9 99 01 raw Estimated new cancer cases in 2007 in thousands Men total 7660 Estimated deaths Lung bronchus 1148 Colon rectum 791 41 289550 500 342 Lung bronchus 31 Urinary bladder lymphoma Leukemia Pancreas 6 I I 9 Colon rectum 9 Women total 6781 1785 Lung bronchus 986 Colon rectum 746 37 Uterine corpus 391 290 Ovary 6 Pancreas Colon A Estimated deaths bronchus Total 26 270100 jV v Breast 15 Two more airport graves identified It could halt plans for drainage improvements preparation for five to 10 new hangars a taxiway By Sue Book Sun Journal Staff An archeologists closer look at a pro posed site for private plane hangars and a taxiway at the Craven Regional Airport identified two more graves Examination U lymphoma NOTE Excludes basal and squamous cell skin cancers and In situ carcinomas except urinary bladder 6 rectum 10 of the area around the airports gen eral aviation facility was We still hope at minimum to get SOURCE American Cancer Society it obviously makes you feel like We must be doing some thing right Cancer deaths in the US in 2004 fell to 553888 a of 3014 deaths or 05 percent from the year before according to a review of US death certificates conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics and released by the Ameri can Cancer Society Cancer deaths also fell in 2003 the first drop seen since 1930 But that decline was AP so small just 369 deaths that experts were hesitant at the time to say whether it was a triumph of medicine or just a statistical fluke Now it appears its not on ly continuing the decrease in the second year is much larger said Jemal an American Cancer Society researcher Experts are attributing the success to declines in smok ing and to earlier detection and more effective treat See radar drainage project study show Airport director ing something there It could halt plans for drainage improvements and preparation for five to 10 new hangars and a taxiway funded by an Federal Aviation Adminis tration grant The airport authority will have to wait until the Tarboro archeologist takes her findings to the State Historical Preserva tion Office to know whether it can build a scaled down version of the project do See Gates More troops to Afghanistan Department of photo Defense Secretary Robert Gates meets with US Army soldiers at a forward operating base in Afghanistan Pentagon chief suggests request is near By Robert Burns The Associated Press BAGRAM AIR BASE Afghanistan The Taliban are on the attack in Af and US commanders want more troops to fight them at the same time the military is straining under President Bushs plans to send more to Iraq Defense Secretary Robert Gates vis iting Afghanistan to see conditions for himself suggested Wednesday he would indeed ask Bush for reinforcements Gates spent two days in talks with American NATO and Afghan officials and said he was impressed with prog ress toward stabilizing and rebuild ing Afghanistan Yet he also said US commanders want to add troops to the American force now there the highest level of a war While Gates used no figures a senior official traveling with him said the pro increase would not be large See Three face charges in series of breakins Vanceboro crime spree believed to have ended with arrests of two men woman By Francine Sawyer Sun Journal Staff VANCEBORO Cleve is a neighborly sort who works at the family store the Cleve Produce Company But a couple of his neigh bors are accused of going too far breaking into his business as part of a Vanceboro crime spree that ended with their ar rests this week Two men and a woman are facing charges for their in volvement with the breakins that started in December and continued until Jan 9 Cleve said guns tools and about was stolen from his business They broke down the door to get in he said Donald Pritts 34 of 7830 Main St Jeffrey Allen Nobles 30 of Bailey Lane and Sandra Wright 31 of 7830 Main St all of Vanceboro face multiple charges associated with the breakins said Kenny Wade Craven County sheriffs inves Pritts and Wright live next Wright door to Cleves business which he said had never been broken into before See Pritts Nobles Manuel Balce photo Officials attend the unveiling of the Doomsday Clock during a news conference in Washington The clock created in 1947 reflects the global failures to solve the problems posed by nuclear weapons and the climate crisis Doomsday Clock closer to midnight Fears of nuclear environmental disaster reflect global concerns By Raphael G Satter The Associated Press LONDON The world is nudging closer to nuclear or environmental apoc a group of prominent scientists warned Wednesday as it pushed the hand of its symbolic Doomsday Clock closer to midnight The clock which was set two minutes forward to represents the hood of a global cataclysm Its 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