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I don't think that's necessarily a knock against cancer treatments. In the end we all have to die of something and late-life cancer is probably always going to be a leader. I think a better stat would be the average age of those who die of cancer and the survival rates of child cancers.



Yeah I wish people would account for this when making statements. What is the incidence of cancer death in 50-year-olds then vs now.




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