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As far as I can tell, it's simply not true that cancer incidence decreases at 65, or indeed at any age. Here's a graph from the UK:

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/mort...

You can get the equivalent statistics for the US here, although I couldn't find a way to link to specific results:

http://wonder.cdc.gov/cancermort-v2010.HTML

The rate of death from cancer goes up with age. There's no age where it decreases.

Perhaps there are certain diseases that have a higher incidence in the 50-65 group than in the 65+ group. Cancer, at least taken as a whole, is not it though.

If you're going to continue this, please give me some numbers before calling me "misinformed" because I'm actually checking your claims.



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