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> The US has the highest cancer survival rate in the world The US isn’t bad in that respect, but according to Wikipedia, this statement isn’t even true for the
by ar0 7y ago
> The US has the highest cancer survival rate in the world
The US isn’t bad in that respect, but according to Wikipedia, this statement isn’t even true for the subset of countries on their list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_of_healthcare https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality...
- jandrewrogers 7y agoThat only looks at three cancers. The oncology literature tracks survival rates across all cancer incidence, in which the US consistently comes out on top. Only a few other countries, such as Switzerland, are close. It is attributable almost entirely to more aggressive (and expensive) diagnostics combined with many new cancer therapies being available in the US years before they trickle down to the rest of the world.