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Re:U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Dropped by a Third Since 1991 by refurb on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:19AM (#34364238)
They have?

https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac...

Looks like they went from 400 to 500 then back to 450 since 1975. It's trending down.

And you'd need to correct for age distribution to make sure it's not just the population having older people and thus higher chance of cancer in a given year.

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Re:U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Dropped by a Third Since 1991 by tee_0 on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:17AM (#34364520)
What part of this document contradicts what I’ve said? The only chart that doesn’t start at 75 is cancer deaths, not incidence.
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Re:U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Dropped by a Third Since 1991 by refurb on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:22AM (#34364543)
You said it "skyrocketed" since 1970. Unless it skyrocketed from '70 to '74 (which I doubt), the trend is not up, it's up then back down.
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Re:U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Dropped by a Third Since 1991 by tee_0 on Friday January 13, 2023 @08:12AM (#34367199)
The original comment literally outlines the interaction we’ve just had
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Re:U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Dropped by a Third Since 1991 by refurb on Friday January 13, 2023 @10:29PM (#34377130)
Please provide data to back up your original claim.
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