Tag Archives: survival rates
Cancer survivors in United States increasing by hundreds of thousands per year
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 12th March 2011The above is the title of a story published by the AP. Why are there more cancer survivors? Here is the explanation offered by the story: More people are surviving cancer, in part, because of earlier detection and better treatment, they (health officials at the Centers for Disease Control) said. In 2007, there were about…
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Early Diagnosis of Cancer
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 6th February 2009The sad news that Justice Ginsburg has pancreatic cancer has resurfaced the issue of cancer survival data. Epidemiologists have been trying to convince oncologists for decades that survival data are meaningless. And they more or less have, though recidivism is common among the latter. US News has an article that shows that we’ve still got…
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