The latest @AmericanCancer statistics show the trend. Age-adjusted mortality from breast cancer has declined markedly since the late 1980s. 2/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3322/caac.21442 …
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The same paper also shows that age-adjusted mortality from cancer in general has declined significantly since the late 1980s. There are individual exceptions for which mortality has increased or stayed the same, but in general cancer mortality is declining. 3/
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None of this is to say that too many people aren't dying from cancer or that we can't do better against cancer, but these data do counter the common belief that more people are dying of cancer. They aren't, at least not as a percentage of the population. 4/
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The challenge for oncologists, surgeons, and scientists will be to keep this decline going and to find out how to do better in the cancers for which we aren't doing as well. 5/
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Given that I'm now old enough to be entering the age at which cancer becomes much more common and that my mother-in-law died of breast cancer, I am invested in this as much as anyone. 6/6
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