Cancer cases in US decline for first time

[babylonsister]

Cancer cases in US decline for first time
Could mark turning point; Deaths also drop; reasons unclear
By Rob Stein
Washington Post / November 26, 2008


WASHINGTON - The pace at which Americans are getting cancer has started to decline for the first time, marking what could be a long-awaited turning point in the battle against the disease, according to an annual report that tracks progress in the war on cancer.

Cancer deaths have also continued a decline that began in the early 1990s, meaning that for the first time both trend lines are dropping.

"It is a significant milestone," said Otis Brawley, chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society, which produces the report with the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries. "It is a really big deal."

The drop in cancer incidence has been driven largely by declines in many of the leading forms of cancer - lung, prostate, and colorectal cancer in men, and breast and colorectal cancer in women.

"The take-home message is that many of the things we've been telling people to do to be healthy have finally reached the point where we can say that they are working," Brawley said.

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/11/26/cancer_cases_in_us_decline_for_first_time/

[valerief]

1. Americans must be dying of other things earlier then. Cancer is like oil.

We won't be able to get rid of it. It makes too many people rich.

[trotsky]

2. Koresh Almighty.

You can't even post wonderful, uplifting health news in this forum without someone taking a shit on it.

WE'RE STARTING TO BEAT CANCER! A vicious killer of humankind since the beginning! Can't we enjoy this news for a moment?

[valerief]

4. And...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=222&topic_id=48236&mesg_id=48240

[trotsky]

5. And....?

If there really were a conspiracy to keep people dying of cancer, why were the numbers even allowed to look like they were going down?

I view this as great news - we are living longer, we're dying less from cancer, we're even getting cancer less frequently. Wonderful, wonderful news. You can piss all over it if you want but that doesn't change a thing.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. You'd better go and piss on Warpy's post too.

Just to maintain consistency. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=222&topic_id=48236&mesg_id=48244

[trotsky]

11. Stalk much? n/t

[Crunchy Frog]

12. No. Extremely rarely as a matter of fact.

There's just certain sorts of behaviors occuring on this forum that I'm starting to get extremely sick of. I've decided to begin occasionally pointing it out when I see it. I don't intend to make a regular habit of hijacking threads and picking massive flamewars anytime soon, though. :hi:

[trotsky]

13. Ooh, I'm special!

Or at least in your mind I am. How awesome! :hi:

[trotsky]

14. Oh, and just so i can get this straight...

1. Someone posts good health news.
2. Someone else not only craps on it but makes an essentially disparaging comment directed at virtually everyone in a healing profession.
3. I criticize that person's response, and I'm guilty of the behavior that you've appointed yourself chief of police in dealing with?

Truly fascinating.

[sandyd921]

3. There may be a bit more to this...

Before folks go out and celebrate...

"Brawley and others cautioned, however, that part of the reduction could be due to fewer people getting screened for prostate and breast cancers. In addition, the rates at which many other types of cancer are being diagnosed are still increasing, he said, and overall far too many Americans are still getting and dying from cancer."

[MannyGoldstein]

6. And Life Expectancy Keeps Increasing by 4 Months Every Year

We're doing something right!

[Warpy]

7. No job, no insurance. No insurance, no diagnosis

No diagnosis, a drop in cancer cases.

See how easy that is? Just throw more people to the wolves and you improve all sorts of statistics.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Glyconutrients.... n/t

[cabluedem]

9. Bingo. I have no HC so no money for cancer treatments.

[Celebration]

15. well if women are getting fewer mammograms

Maybe their tumors are disappearing before they are diagnosed.

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