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• Spooky23 3y ago
  This is one of those stats that get abused as fairly benign cancers like certain prostate cancers get diagnosed more. But as someone who just lost my wife to melanoma, I can tell you that despite the fact that treatment advances has brought 5-year survival rates from 10% to 70%, deaths are increasing. The oncologists I spoke to attribute it to the ozone hole in the 80s and 90s and the tanning bed phenomenon of the 90s and 2000s. Think of cancer not as a thing but as a disease process. Each variant has different drivers and each treatment regime has different risks. Social and environmental factors drive many negative outcomes.
• _qua 3y ago
  This is what I tell patients. Eventually something happens to all of us, we just try to extend the time until that happens.