Is the death rate from cancer really on the decline? Does the treatment of cancer actually cause cancer?

Intellectual Medicine · Sep 13, 2021 · 18m

We've been fighting the war on cancer for many decades. It seems that we frequently hear about all of the "success" that we are having. Headlines touting the declining death rates from cancer are common.

And yet, cancer is on track to become the leading cause of death in America.

How much of cancer rate reporting is influenced by a desire to maintain robust funding for ongoing research, and pharmacologic treatments? Without a sense of optimism, enthusiasm for funding would dry up.

Is it correct to equate an improvement in 2 year survival with a decline in the overall death rate even though…