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It's as if we were successfully making cancer less deadly, but at the same time more people were living long enough to get cancer that there were more cancer de
by cbr 11y ago
It's as if we were successfully making cancer less deadly, but at the same time more people were living long enough to get cancer that there were more cancer deaths. We'd still be making the kind of progress we care about in working against cancer fatalities, even though there are more of them. And a suggestion that reduce longevity so that fewer people would die of cancer would be missing the point.
- shkkmo 11y agoWould a suggestion to stop contaminating the ground water and air with carcinogens also miss the point? Obviously, it is a bad idea to maximize the wrong metric. In the case of cancer, just measuring survival rates is a bad metric, but so is measuring cancer deaths per capita. A better metric is to measure the per-capita deaths due to cancer within specific age groups.