Scott Alexander has an interesting blog post about this: Official statistics say we are winning the War on Cancer. Cancer incidence rates, mortality rates, and

Scott Alexander has an interesting blog post about this: Official statistics say we are winning the War on Cancer. Cancer incidence rates, mortality rates, and five-year-survival rates have generally been moving in the right direction over the past few decades. More skeptical people offer an alternate narrative. [...] Suppose a certain cancer is untreatable and will kill you in ten years. If it’s always discovered after seven years, five-year-survival-rate will be 0%. If it’s always discovered after two years, five-year-survival-rate will be 100%. Better screening can shift the percent of cases discovered after seven years vs. two years, and so shift the five-year-survival rate, but the same number of people will be dying of cancer as ever. This post tries to figure out which narrative is more accurate. https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/01/cancer-progress-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/01/cancer-progress-much-m...