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Which isn't related to cancer death rates, which is the proportion of people who die from cancer out of the population of people that have cancer.
by iooi 8y ago
Which isn't related to cancer death rates, which is the proportion of people who die from cancer out of the population of people that have cancer.
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- tyingq 8y agoIf you assume really old people don't have higher death rates, I suppose.
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- simulate 8y agoBoth the Slatestarcodex article and the links you provided in your comment use deaths per 100,000. In fact, your article reaches a similar conclusion to Scott Alexander, that mortality is declining mainly because of smoking declining.
- losvedir 8y agoIt touches on that, too. It's also a hard metric to work with because we're getting better at _detecting_ cancers, including more benign and earlier stage ones. I believe the SSC post found that most of the improvement in cancer mortality was more an artifact of detection than actual improvements in care. i.e.: if you look _only_ at equivalent Stage 4 cancers, then the death rate from there hasn't changed much over time.