Shriners.
Who ever heard of 17 or 18 year olds dying of cancer prior to 2022? 💉
If we have a place called “St Jude’s Children’s Hospital” which is for cancer treatment then I figure we have a lot of kids lose their life to cancer.
cancer sucks.
A lot.
Sometimes it does happen to kids, especially if there is a history of cancer on one or both sides of the family.
Back in junior high school, my class was assigned a book to read and review in English class. It was “Death Be Not Proud” by
John Gunther. written about 1949.
He describes the experience of watching his son eventually die from brain cancer. A rather serious book for 14 year olds, but we did as told and wrote our reports.
Shriners.
They did, but though all the stats show a dramatic decrease between 1975-2020, in which the latter was recorded as a mortality rate of “2.1 per 100,000 children and adolescents in 2020,” I noticed something interesting in my searches just now as a result of your comment.
(also, “declined by more than half from 1970 to 2021 in both children and adolescents, largely due to improvements in treatment and high participation in clinical trials” generally referenced by “age 1-15”)
Good luck wading through the obfuscation of their stats to firmly establish age-specific mortality rate post-2021; more on that shortly.
It was headlined late last year as:
“Youth Cancer Death Rate Down Nearly 25% in US”
‘They’ claim:
“The most recent year for which incidence and mortality data are available lags 2–4 years behind the current year because of the time required for data collection, compilation, quality control, and dissemination.”
Uh-huh. /s I read that as “to give us time to present it in a manner which ‘looks better’.
It does genuinely appear that they have shifted to a ‘CYA presentation’ approach for post-2021 child & adolescent cancer stats. So, if you believe what they’re publishing, the trends continue to fall despite the fact that they fail to cite the mortality rate any longer.
Why would they suddenly (in 2021) change how they present ‘children & adolescent cancer mortality’ when the prior presentation was so favorable to public health?
Convenient, huh? /s
My cousins, Terry and Jill, in the late ‘50s. I’ve heard of them.
As someone who spent months at the child cancer center at Rady Children’s Hospital and the Mcdonald’s House across the street ....there have been far too many for years.