Friday, September 25, 2009

Bleak Cancer Reports Mask Advances - WSJ.com

Bleak Cancer Reports Mask Advances - WSJ.com
Another important sign of progress hidden in headline numbers is that cancer's victims are dying at older ages. That means more years of life have been preserved, even as people eventually died from the disease. Also, individuals born since 1925 have seen lower cancer mortality rates at every age compared with individuals born before that year.

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