After the nonsense about CV-19 vax causing more cancer and cancer deaths, I am watching this carefully. Of course, it isn’t occurring, much less attributable to those vaccines. In fact, cancer mortality is down as reflected in a new report from the American Association for Cancer Research. Between 1991 and 2024 the mortality rate from cancer has dropped 35%. This was largely due to a drop in lung cancer deaths, but also those from breast and colorectal cancer. Five-year survival rates have consequently risen to a high, 71%. High screening rates, and many, many new (and expensive) therapies have contributed to the longer survival times and lower mortality. New treatments are coming for pancreatic, brain and esophageal cancers, which continue to have very high fatality rates. While risk factors like smoking have declined, others, such as obesity, have risen. While there is some rise in cancer rates among younger adults, this is tied to lowering of the age at which screenings are recommended, which hopefully results in catching cancers at an earlier stage. Another primary reason is the increase in risk factors, like obesity. The report has a lot of very useful facts and information. (AACR Report)
Hello Kevin,
In the mid 60’s I knew a man who worked at Fisher Body in Cleveland. He repaired body panels that got damaged in the stamping operations. He told me it was always easier to repair a good fender than to repair a bad one.
In the United States, in 1990, approximately 150,000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed and 44,000 women died from the disease compared to an estimated 317,000 new diagnoses and 42,000 deaths projected for 2025.
I ran the following question into AI -“cancer survival rates in US vs Canada ( enter the name of any country) before or after discovery.
In every case, using several different countries for comparison, I go the following answer :
“The 5-year relative cancer survival rates are generally higher in the United States than in Canada for many common cancers, primarily due to earlier stage diagnosis and more intensive screening programs.”
One of the major debates is going to a single payer/nationalized health care system with the seller point of longer life expectancy in Canada and Europe justifying the change to nationalized health care. My recollection during the Obamacare debates was the survival rates post discovery of the disease was generally longer in the US for most diseases with indicates that health care was not a negative factor in the shorter life expectancy.
Thanks for any insight on the differences.