I'm afraid the raw number of deaths is not how you measure mortality. Mortality looks at the total number of deaths from a disease divided by the population and adjusted for age. In an increasing US population, the numerator staying the same means that mortality is decreasing. 1/https://twitter.com/Stickit2Stage4/status/981561846686801920 …
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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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