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Beautiful point! I remember reading about this a few years ago, and it is a fantastic confounding factor. I wonder -- do cancer studies take cancer detection r
by cl42 5y ago
Beautiful point! I remember reading about this a few years ago, and it is a fantastic confounding factor.
I wonder -- do cancer studies take cancer detection rates into account?
- OJFord 5y agoNot GP and I don't know, and this suffers the same problem (but in a way it doesn't matter) but for what you're interested in here you can just look at mortality (per general population, not patients): https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/statistics-by-cancer-type/head-and-neck-cancers/mortality#heading-Two https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-... which is roughly stable over the same period. Which must mean treatment (or early detection) got better, and you can say 'oh it would be even better if it weren't for ~5G~ detecting it in more people', but I say in a way it doesn't matter because it shows we're sort of.. 'coping with it', and wanting it to be better is a different conversation than whether we're making it worse.
- cl42 5y agoThanks, this is really helpful and I like how you're looking at it.