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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Apr 2018

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted StickIt2Stage4

      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 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      StickIt2Stage4 @Stickit2Stage4
      Replying to @gorskon @ESchattner
      "RATE has dropped because the denominator (#cases of breast cancer) has increased dramatically due to all the DCIS being diagnosed. The numerator (#deaths) hasn't budged in decades" .@stage4kelly 41,400 people will die from #BreastCancer in 2018, that's an increase in deaths.
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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Apr 2018

      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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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Apr 2018

      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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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Apr 2018

      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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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Apr 2018

      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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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Apr 2018

      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

      9:20 AM - 4 Apr 2018
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        1. Jamie Murphy‏ @Microbedoc2 4 Apr 2018
          Replying to @gorskon

          Also the argument that survival has improved merely as a consequence of increased diagnosis of earlier DCIS just isn't back up by the data. Considering that stage 3 breast cancer has seen the greatest increase in 5 year survival rate.

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        1. mahen‏ @amkumar2007 4 Apr 2018
          Replying to @gorskon

          Every physical body form will age disease and die, know the true self is eternal and blissful #Love

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        1. Daniela Dea‏ @Ladanieladea 4 Apr 2018
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          Thank you, Dr. I can relate and I appreciate your noble wish. My husband died of cancer...

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