Posted on 01/05/2012 4:32:27 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot
Cancer death rates are continuing to fall, dropping by 1.8 percent per year in men and 1.6 percent per year in women between 2004 and 2008, according to the American Cancer Society's annual report on cancer statistics released on Wednesday.
Advances in cancer screening and treatment have prevented more than a million total deaths from cancer since the early 1990s, according to the report.
But the influential cancer group said new cases of seven less-common cancers rose in the past decade, suggesting more could be done in America's 40-year war on cancer.
his year, the cancer group projects 1,638,910 people will be newly diagnosed with cancer and 577,190 people will die from it.
"The big news this year is that cancer deaths are still going down," said Dr. Raymond DuBois, provost and executive vice president at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
DuBois said while the rate of decline is small, it is significant because it has continued to fall each year for the past 10 years of available data.
Between 1999 and 2008, cancer death rates fell by more than 1 percent per year in men and women in every racial and ethnic group except for American Indians/Alaska Natives, among whom rates have held steady.
"It's not hitting the ball out of the park, but it had been going up several years prior to that. It's sign now that it is on the decline," DuBois said in a telephone interview. The biggest declines in the latest report were amon
g black men, where cancer deaths fell by 2.4 percent, and Hispanic men, where rates fell by 2.3 percent.
Death rates fell in all four of the most common cancers, lung, colon, breast and prostate, with lung cancer accounting for nearly 40 percent of the total drop.....
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Well they keep falling in Britain too. I wonder why..
Cancer death rates dropping, black and Hispanic males most affected.
Bush’s fault...
One would have to look at the different kinds of cancers — there is not just one, to see where the progress is happening. Surely it has to do with better diagnoses, better treatments, and less exposure to risk factors.
“...new cases of seven less-common cancers rose in the past decade.”
This is likely because while major cancers were thwarted, the underlying cause of developing cancers was not.
That is, people almost continually create and destroy bad cells that might turn cancerous. There is an elaborate mechanism to destroy such cells. This means that cancers have to both emerge and expand in such a way as to evade this destruction in a multitude of ways.
Then cancers have to fool the body into providing them more resources than normal, healthy cells need, to grow new capillaries to feed them, and for the immune system to give them extra protections against pathogens that would attack them.
In other words, please don't stop sending us money!
I think better diagnosis. I’ve had a number of tests this year to screen for pre-cancer. I think a lot of people are going in for scans.
Well, my assumption was that as a system moves toward communist healthcare, disease reporting goes down. It’s simply the nature of incentive and I would suppose this to be happening here as commie care gets cranked up.
Technically, it just gets reported as whatever agenda we are trying to push today. Could be cancer, could be evil SUV's, might even be Bush's fault!
I don’t mean to be too harsh on suffering doctors. Simply observing how the game changes when liberty and free will are taken out of the equation.
One obvious hypothesis is that Britain involved laundered data where America involved better care and prevention. One would have to look at America well into Obamacare (if it does not die in Congress or in court) to speak about that.
That’s probably a more accurate assessment.. but check this out from Drudge; Doctors going broke -http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/05/smallbusiness/doctors_broke/index.htm?hpt=hp_t3&hpt=hp_c1
Doctors can only “operate” upon the info provided by the Hack CDC, NIH etc.
CDC and NIH get all of their alleged “scientific info” from Universities and pharmaceutical companies.
Thanks to Congress these folks can now “buy” any result they want and present it as “fact”.
Facts are stubborn things . Most of what you read about health studies is pure propaganda/bulls*it!
They will turn around when ZerOcare kicks in, only, it will be called natural causes.
I bet that's truer then most realize.
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