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Most of the time, if someone is old and dies in their sleep, then no one goes looking for an autopsy. The spread of cancer can be really dramatic after it meta
by true_religion 5y ago
Most of the time, if someone is old and dies in their sleep, then no one goes looking for an autopsy.
The spread of cancer can be really dramatic after it metastasizes so you can go from looking just a bit unwell, to dead in a few months.
And even if cancer is present, and an autopsy is done… will it get listed as cause of death when there are other conditions present that don’t need lab reports to verify them?
- pessimizer 5y agoThat's my point. Are at least a quarter to a third of head and neck cancers going undiagnosed because the sufferer dies of something else before they are noticed? In order for the count of head and neck cancers to increase by a third or a half due to earlier diagnosis, without an underlying increase in the actual number of head and neck cancers, this has to be true.