[Pharmboy]

All of you "we're living in a sea of cancer-causing toxins" folks--here's an inconvenient truth.

[Pharmboy]

Some progress being made ping...

[hometoroost]

That’s something Barry will change.

[decimon]

For all types of cancer, new cases declined by nearly 1% a year between 1999 and 2006.

There you go missing the obvious. Those were the years of a Republican congress.

[jersey117]

Until obamacare passes.

[mo]

IMHO, nobody is smoking any more...

[MajorThomas]

This can't be, ObamaKare hasn't passed yet, how WILL they have to spin this news...

[Texas Jack]

I've read some on how they come up with these statistics.

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.

[ScottinVA]

“Cancer Death Rate Continues to Fall”

For now. Once 0bamaCare becomes law, watch for it to skyrocket. For the greater good, you know.

[Shire]

Cancer is an ugly, vile, hateful disease. I lost my dad and my sister to cancer.

[TASMANIANRED]

They will rise again under the OCare.