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Facts & Figures 2020 Reports Largest One-year Drop in Cancer Mortality
American Cancer Society ^ | 1/8/20 | Staff

Posted on 01/08/2020 1:59:16 PM PST by Haiku Guy

The death rate from cancer in the US declined by 29% from 1991 to 2017, including a 2.2% drop from 2016 to 2017, the largest single-year drop ever recorded, according to annual statistics reporting from the American Cancer Society. The decline in deaths from lung cancer drove the record drop. Deaths fell from about 3% per year from 2008 - 2013 to 5% from 2013 - 2017 in men and from 2% to almost 4% in women. However, lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer death.

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(Excerpt) Read more at cancer.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancer; cancermortality; cancerstats; getshorty; michaelbloomberg; mikebloomberg; newyork
Good medical news.
1 posted on 01/08/2020 1:59:16 PM PST by Haiku Guy
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To: Haiku Guy
Headline: TRUMP TO UNDERTAKERS: LEARN TO CODE!!!
2 posted on 01/08/2020 2:00:02 PM PST by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave)
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To: Haiku Guy

HEADLINE: TRUMP CAUSES INCREASE IN HEART DISEASE

(as fewer people die from cancer, you gotta die from something!)


3 posted on 01/08/2020 2:08:11 PM PST by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Haiku Guy

This will be spun negatively against Trump.

Oppressive cigarette taxes under Trump cause people to give up hobby they enjoy


4 posted on 01/08/2020 2:19:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Hmmm, just as people are learning that the best way to fight cancer is to stop eating carbohydrates, as they become glucose, which feeds cancer cells.

Coincidence...possibly not, according to some early studies.


5 posted on 01/08/2020 2:32:59 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't don't tell anyone.)
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To: Haiku Guy

1. lung cancer is not the leading cause. Lung cancer is the result of smoking and other factors. The knife does not kill. The person pointing the knife at you kills.

In reality, the smoker commit slow suicide.

2. Check out the relationship between deregulation, faster time to market at cheaper prices for cancer drugs and deaths from cancer.

3. Trump’s Healthcare Replacement of Obamacare seems to be JOBS and deregulation. It is working.


6 posted on 01/08/2020 2:49:30 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: Haiku Guy

Immunotherapy is revolutionizing cancer treatment.


7 posted on 01/08/2020 2:51:06 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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Re: Good medical news

Yes - but that means other causes of death have increased.

A couple decades ago I recall reading that if no one died from cancer, the average age of death would only go up about five years.

Cardio-vascular disease and stroke would replace most of the cancer deaths.

I think the average age of death is close to 80 in the USA.

Problem - very few people experience health improvement after age 80.

8 posted on 01/08/2020 2:51:34 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: Haiku Guy

Must’ve been due to vaping.


9 posted on 01/08/2020 3:12:20 PM PST by fruser1
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To: BobL
Re: Hmmm, just as people are learning that the best way to fight cancer is to stop eating carbohydrates, as they become glucose, which feeds cancer cells.

I read this claim more and more often.

I do not know if that is true or false.

However...

If the human body is undernourished, it pretty much tries to convert EVERYTHING we eat into glucose - including proteins and fats.

My point - it is hard to believe that the human body can selectively “decide” how much glucose it “needs” for good health if cancer cells are present.

10 posted on 01/08/2020 3:13:23 PM PST by zeestephen
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“Problem - very few people experience health improvement after age 80.”

I would propose that very few people experience health improvement after age 70. The human body’s musculo-skeletal warranty expires at age 45 and everything else starts to decline after that too. That’s the way we are designed.


11 posted on 01/08/2020 3:16:04 PM PST by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: Haiku Guy

People are learning about naturopathic treatments. Cut sugar, nutrify, and oxygenate your body.


12 posted on 01/08/2020 3:23:31 PM PST by Salvavida
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To: BobL

My oncologist says this is a myth.

But in an indirect way there is a smidgen of truth. Eating carbs causes weight gain. There is a small increase in the occurrence of cancer from obesity


13 posted on 01/08/2020 3:57:33 PM PST by kidd
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To: dead

Immunotherapy is revolutionizing cancer treatment.

Something mildly ironic that Freeper “dead” is reporting this!


14 posted on 01/08/2020 4:06:44 PM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: kidd

“My oncologist says this is a myth.”

Time will tell. Studies are ongoing, so ruling it out seems a bit closed-minded, especially considering the alternative.


15 posted on 01/08/2020 5:38:43 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't don't tell anyone.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Cancer treatments have not changed this drastically. Neither have chemical exposure factors. What has changed?

Answer: the rise of the high fat, low carb diet.


16 posted on 01/08/2020 6:29:33 PM PST by nagant
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Another credit-stealing scam by Mike Bloomberg exposed!

17 posted on 01/13/2020 2:11:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: dead

I am praying that is so. My husband was diagnosed with 3b LC in October. Quit smoking 15 yrs ago. Just finished radiation and chemo. Starts immunotherapy in February. It is truly a life changing event.


18 posted on 01/13/2020 2:16:18 PM PST by jersey117
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