From the second link: « In the United States, the overall cancer death rate has declined since the early 1990s. The most recent Annual Report to the Nation on

From the second link: « In the United States, the overall cancer death rate has declined since the early 1990s. The most recent Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, published in March 2016, shows that from 2003 to 2012, cancer death rates decreased by: 1.8 percent per year among men 1.4 percent per year among women 2.0 percent per year among children ages 0-19 Although death rates for many individual cancer types have also declined, rates for a few cancers have stabilized or even increased. » A sustained 1.5 percent decrease per-year is not something that can be wholly attributed to early detection or reclassification. It is huge; a 1.5 percent yearly decrease means halving mortality in ~50 years. If this metric is true (and there's no reason to discredit it), then: - Some other mortality cause is increasing and dwarfing cancer; or - Cancer survivability metrics are being negatively affected by early detection. In any case, it's quite difficult to make a strong case that medical knowledge regarding cancer has not progressed in 60 years and that outcomes are stable. Such a large decrease in cancer death rates must be fueled by some major structural force.