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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 26

    Have we made progress against cancer, or are we just discovering it earlier, so people are just dying more years after diagnosis (but not living longer? The amazing Scott Alexander shows that the progress is real (though hardly exponential).http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/01/cancer-progress-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ …

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      1. Paulo Nadanovsky‏ @Nadanovsky Aug 27
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        Yes, but note that this is not evidence for the effectiveness of screening. Cancer treatment has improved and this may have even reduced the modest gains from screening.

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      1. Barry Ptolemy‏ @TranscendentMan Aug 26
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        Not exponential... yet!

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      1. Quintin Pope‏ @QuintinPope3 Aug 28
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        Not really sure how progress can be exponential... It seems kind of weird to me to describe, say, the elimination of smallpox or Guinea worm as "exponential", though they've been very successful.

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      1. Rafael Fonseca MD‏ @Rfonsi1 Aug 28
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        https://youtu.be/NR2Wr3qyZxA 

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      1. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Aug 27
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        The #MasterRace have also dramatically increased the causes of cancer with the capitalist diet, glysophate, air pollution from high efficiency engines, pollution from fracking, asbestos, plastics,... They flourish creating the problem and flourish attempting to fix it.

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      1. paul‏ @paulca_ Aug 26
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        people are dying more because its peoples fault, you should direct your mind rather than mind directing you as per advertisements that only modern medicine is the scientifically proved medicine.

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      1. Sinidir‏ @Arctos_Vulpes Aug 26
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        Nice

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      1. Non-Toxic Avenger 🗽 🍕‏ @Bugs_Meany Aug 26
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        w/o reading his piece, last time i checked data, it was "a little of both": improvements in diagnosis AND survivability/quality of life. I think that latter point is hardest to quantify. "beating cancer" in past meant cure *almost* killed you. treatment is less dangeous now

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