Posted on 05/27/2009 5:56:04 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Socialized medical rationing should be able to reverse that trend.
Can we stop the cancer walks/races now?
“Can we stop the cancer walks/races now?”
It’s nice to know I’m not the only person who thinks cancer walks are really strange.
Cancer might be down, but the peanut allergies are really getting out of hand.
LOL!! You ain’t kiddin’...
According to Snarling Arlen, that’s um-possible! Evil
Republicans prevented spending on cancer treatments/cures.
It’s nice to know I’m not the only person who thinks cancer walks are really strange.
It's the ongoing victimization of America. We're all special now!
I've survived a somewhat rare cancer. There is no cure, there is not even a race for a cure.
Or are these five year survival figures? I don't know what it means.
To me it should mean that looking at the causes of all deaths these cancers are dropping by these percentages but that means that something else is taking up the slack.
I know you jest, but liberals will ignore the good news and call out a few points in this article to support socialized medicine. For example:
During the 15-year period, the cancer death rate among men dropped by 19.2%, mainly due to decreases in lung, prostate, and colon cancer deaths. In women, the cancer death rate fell by 11.4%, largely due to a drop in breast and colorectal cancer deaths.
To the warp minded Liberal, this shows an inequity in the system that men where cured at a higher rate. Only government intervention can reverse this discrimination by insuring more men die....
Black women continue to die of breast cancer at a greater rate than their white counterparts, she points out.
More government to insure more white and Hispanic women die of breast cancer
What’s more, the current obesity epidemic may fuel a rise in the rates.
Government tax on soda...
Among men, death rates for the fatal form of skin cancer melanoma are also on the rise.
More government to prevent Ozone depletion...
“I’ve survived a somewhat rare cancer.”
I’m hoping to surivive a somewhat common one. But there aren’t any “walks for . . .” coming for ModelBreaker.
What a nonsensical sentence. If you don't get screened you don't die? If you don't get diagnosed you don't die? Huh?
Look what Obama has done already! Isn’t he wonderful?
“I do not understand the significance of these numbers.”
The figures are age-specific death rates per 100,000 in a given year, which obviously never equal 100% (except maybe for 120-year-olds). You’re right that in principle, cancer rates could be declining as rates from another cause of death rise, but that’s not typically how this works. That is, if the cancer death rate for 50-59 year old males declines, it typically means that the “survivors” (whether these be people actually cured of cancer or people who averted cancer in the first place through early detection or prevention) live added years. Yes, they may eventually die of something else, but the fact that they didn’t die of cancer does mean they gained extra years of life. So even though everyone faces a 100% chance of death eventually, the issue is how many years they live before dying. Eliminating or reducing a cause of death from a particular cause invariably increases life expectancy, even if only a small amount.
“What a nonsensical sentence.”
I think the reporter—who obviously wasn’t a science or math whiz—inappropriately extrapolated from the doctor’s statement about why the number of breast cancer cases has declined and assumed it would apply equally well to deaths. I assume the doctor’s statement (that bc cases have declined due to less screening) is correct, but the reporter’s inference is, as you say, nonsensical.
A double major in Journalism and Womyn's Studies with a Kwanzaa Appreciation minor will do that.
I’ll just be one of the CDC statistics to screw up their breast cancer statistics dying at the age of 52 considering that the state of Idaho has denied my request for medicaid and I do not have medical insurance since I am an insulin dependent diabetic and my husband is 75. C’est la vie.
Sorry to hear that. Don’t know if this might be of any help.
Hard-to-Insure Find Novel Way to Get Coverage
Group Health Plans Available to as Few as One Employee; How to Prove You’re Legit
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124338117660756415.html
Good luck.
So sorry about your situation.
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