Mortality rates have been declining since the early 1990's. Notice how cancer mortality is a bigger threat to men, but women get all the attention because of politics.
Posted on 01/09/2020 3:43:17 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
The death rate from cancer in the United States saw the largest ever single-year decline between 2016 and 2017 since rates began declining in 1992, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society. The increased survival rate was mainly due to advances in the treatment of lung cancer.
This deceleration in lung cancer deaths spurred an overall drop in cancer mortality of 2.2% from 2016 to 2017, according to the report. Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer in the United States, accounting for about 27% of all cancer deaths — more than breast, prostate, colorectal, and brain cancers combined. Lung cancer is also the most common cause of death due to cancer among men age 40 and older and women age 60 and older.
The decline in mortality from melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer, was also dramatic, according to the report. The progress comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved new therapies for metastatic disease, or cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. Notably, death from melanoma decreased in people aged 65 years and older, a group where melanoma rates were increasing prior to 2013.
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That is why politicians who depend on tobacco taxes tried to destroy vaping in the last few months by falsely linking it to deaths.
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Mortality rates have been declining since the early 1990's. Notice how cancer mortality is a bigger threat to men, but women get all the attention because of politics.
Yes, it has been dropping as people reduce tobacco use....but the drop is accelerating due to the switch to vaping.
“Vaping has led to a massive decrease in lung cancer “
I can believe that but the decline of lung cancers started in 1990. When did vaping become widespread?
Unless I’m misunderstanding the stats in the article, the mortality rate decline is among those diagnosed with cancer. How would vaping affect that? Do you mean that people having received a diagnosis of cancer switch to vaping and thus improve their survival rate?
It seems likely that as vaping becomes more popular than smoking it could bring a drop in lung cancer diagnoses. But this article indicates that cancer treatments are improving.
It will probably take many years before that shows up.
Trump’s fault.
Not to worry. Cigarette smoking is down. Cancer is down. Fools be smoking dope. Cancer will rebound. Zero sum game.
Sure ... folks smoking dope instead of cigs, driving impaired, killing others and themselves, not in cancer stats anymore.
Vaping hasn’t been around long enough to effect anything, and in the end it will be found to more cancerous than cigarettes by far.
With career political pimps pandering to America’s addicts, there will be numerous epidemics plaguing us. Cancer will be the least of our ills.
Not quite. The effect of switching to vaping will not register for another 30 years or longer, the average time it takes to develop lung cancer.
The drastic change in just one year is because of the approval of a new category of miracle drugs called ‘checkpoint inhibitors’. They work only on a small fraction of patients, but when they do work they clear out the cancer very quickly (months). It’s an area of intense research.
I am surprised that the headline was not ‘Cancer Specialists fear for their jobs in Trump era’.
Based on the experiences of some family members who have been through this, death may actually be preferable to some of the treatments that are producing these results.
Treatments are getting better all the time.
The decline is accelerating thanks to vaping being used as an alternative to tobacco.
“The decline is accelerating thanks to vaping being used as an alternative to tobacco.”
In the original report on the decline, vaping wasn’t mentioned because, I think, it’s now being rejected by big medicine.
Vaping (if you avoid certain additives) is certainly a great alternative to smoking.
One of my best friends, quote:
“All medical science did was to make my dad’s life a little bit longer, and a whole lot more miserable.”
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