Posted on 12/08/2009 4:43:04 AM PST by Pharmboy
Researchers Say More Cancers Are Being Detected Early or Prevented Through Screening
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Dec. 7, 2009 -- New cancer cases and the cancer death rate continue to fall in the U.S., driven largely by declines in lung, prostate, and colorectal cancers in men and breast and colorectal cancers in women.
For all types of cancer, new cases declined by nearly 1% a year between 1999 and 2006. During much of the 1990s cancer incidence rates were stable, after increasing steadily from the mid-1970s.
The cancer death rate -- the best predictor of progress against the disease -- has been falling for more than a decade and a half. Deaths from cancer declined by about 1% annually between 1993 and 2001 and 1.6% annually from 2002 to 2006.
Fewer Americans are smoking and more cancers are being detected early or prevented entirely through screening.
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Some progress being made ping...
That’s something Barry will change.
Good point...certainly for those of us over the age of 60.
Yep, got to kill off them old people so we can continue with the lies and make Barry dictator for life.
There you go missing the obvious. Those were the years of a Republican congress.
Until obamacare passes.
IMHO, nobody is smoking any more...
That is a BIG factor, no question...
It seems that a person is considered cured of cancer if they live for five years after it was first diagnosed. If the same cancer is becomes active again, even a year before you die, and your death occurs five years and one day after it was first diagnosed, you are counted as cured.
I believe the article I was reading was about the US reducing the life after diagnosis years from seven to five so our statistics would be more in line with what the Europeans were using.
Statistics don't lie, but statisticians (and the politician that use them) do.
I believe what you say is true, but the trend is there nonetheless.
“Cancer Death Rate Continues to Fall”
For now. Once 0bamaCare becomes law, watch for it to skyrocket. For the greater good, you know.
You are spot on with the 5 year survival concept. The newer
technologies that identify the cancers earlier increase the number of people with a six year survival rate. The six year survivors then die and radically alter the statistics without
improving the annual per capita death rate at all. The best example of this is: the breast cancer death rate in 1935 was 35 per 100,000. 60 years later the 1995 the breast cancer death rate was still 35 per 100,000. All of the treatment efforts over the sixty year period did nothing to alter the breast cancer
death rate.
IMHO, modern breast cancer treatment is really barbaric. My friend was starved her last days. I'm still angry.
Suz,
From my point of view it looks like early detection simply gives the practitioners more time to torture the gullible women (WITHOUT ANY MEANINGFUL LIFE EXTENSION). It is also
my understanding that oncologists do not recognize the precancerous calcification of smooth muscle tissue in milk ducts to be an active breast cancer.
Cancer is an ugly, vile, hateful disease. I lost my dad and my sister to cancer.
I am sorry to hear about this...truly. Indeed, there aren’t many families untouched by this disease.
They will rise again under the OCare.
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