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Smoking? Medical advances? Immigrants living healthier lifestyles?

What a great data story Thank you And I remember growing up in 90s and the war on cancer Long term government investment in healthcare does work

Yep, I was just pointing out one correlation among many. Cancer rates have a tendency to rise as other causes of deaths drop.

The same way Big Pharma "hid" ivermectin curing COVID, when they're the ones who make it?

In deed cancer death rates have declined in the United States middle aged. But many other causes have not declined. The middle aged is the only age group with increasing death rates in the United States.

I notice the chart ends in 2021. Is there any sense how COVID may be impacting these gains?

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They have discovered some gastric cancers are genetic … there is testing available now to detect this and surgical alternatives available

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Wow, I'm very glad to hear it!

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I have been fighting two different kinds of cancer simultaneously for 16 years and I am still alive because of the results you just presented. My odds of living another year or two increase each year as new drugs are found.

Consider cancer rates among young generations have gone up, would there be an argument that age could be less of a adjusting factor?

That’s only 34 yrs. Sounds long but it really isn’t considering there is no cure. This is what science does. It gave 33% of cancer victims the opportunity to continue to love and be loved maybe to contribute great things. Maybe become that next scientist.

Because they die from diabetes instead?

Can it be split into folks with healthcare plans and folks with only basic care?

Also I think we're on the cusp of huge advances in cancer medicine. Look for dramatic decreases in the currently-prohibitive cost of "personalized" therapies.

When I want to think about progress I often think about this passage from “All Quiet on the Western Front” which describes what a cancer diagnosis meant a century ago during WW1:

Did they just convince you that up was really down?

The decrease in smoking and air pollution are amazing. More still needs to be done though

What if we adjust for the increased age of the US population? The red line, the age-standardized rate, shows this. It shows the cancer death rate if the age structure of the US population was held constant throughout.

Chemo became a lot better and more personalized. It was a bit after that when we mapped the human genome as well.

It means that on average, the amount of people with depression (or cancer) hasn't necessarily increased (in terms of percentage). We simply may be diagnosing what 100 years ago may have been dismissed as "flu" or demonic possession.

In any case, even though humans are part of the natural world, we produce and distribute large amounts of poisonous substances.

Crude total mortality rate tend to be relatively stable in modern high-income societies, so crude cancer-specific rate is roughly proportional to the % of deaths due to cancer.

Super interesting. Yes. Lung cancer is just so much bigger than everything else, especially for men.