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Posted by Peter Jensen on 07/03/06 20:41
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plew@csus_abcdefghij.edu wrote:
>> I don't know about new cases, but last time I looked cancer mortality
>> was running about 900,000 a year, according to CDC stats (second only
>> to heart disease at 1.4M or so). It might have gone down some but I
>> doubt it's gone down to 50,000.
>
> Will have to check as the numbers for the mortality by cancer you gave
> is much more than what I've seen/read even if it includes all
> countries. From what I've noticed, it seems to me that some numbers
> are double counted for the various illnesses, diseases & etc.
According to a table of cancer death rates I found, in the US alone the
most common forms accounted for at least 280000 deaths in 1998:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5103a1.htm
But this comes as no surprise to me. People live longer and in better
health than they used to, yet in the end something still has to kill us.
Cardiovascular conditions used to be a big killer (and in many places it
still is), but doctors are getting better at treating it. Once people
started to live a lot longer, there is simply more time for cancer to
develop, which will show up in the statistics. Once doctors get better
at treating cancer, something else will suddenly become a dominant cause
of death, because we just can't live forever.
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