concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: vaccines

pharmaceutical product
type: Concept
narrower: vaccines

prevention
type: Concept
narrower: vaccines

vaccines
type: Concept
broader: prevention
broader: pharmaceutical product
definition: THE A MERICAN CANCER Society ranks cancer as the number two cause of death in the United States. Cancer-related deaths adjusted to population size have decreased only slightly, whereas deaths related to heart disease and stroke have decreased by more than 50 percent in the United States between 1950 and 2003, the latter primarily as a result of rapid medical advances. [Source: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society; Vaccines]