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Cancer rates drop for first time
There's good news on the cancer front: For the first time since the government started keeping track, the rate of cancer in the U.S. has decreased. Researchers already knew that the number of cancer deaths was decreasing due to early detection and better treatment, but the new numbers show that improvement is being made in preventing the causes of cancer.
Some researchers are warning that the gains may only be temporary, as the stress from the bad economic situation drives people to start smoking again. They also note that baby boomers are reaching the age when they are likely to start developing cancer, which could inflate the numbers again.
Incidence rates dropped nearly a percent per year between 1999 and 2005 across all cancers, with men's incidences of cancer dropping at nearly three times the rate of women's. Meanwhile, the death rate dropped by nearly 2 percent per year over the same time period.
To learn more about the drop:
- read this LA Times piece
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By jeannette franklin | Posted 6:23pm | November 28, 2008
the cancer rates have slowed down because,the doctors have given hospice orders to stop the older
patients water and food and treatment,and over dose
them with morphine until they die."SOME VICTORY"
wwhy dont they do that for their familys???????????
they trick people into beleiveing hospice is something elce becides MURDER>>>>>>>>Well you cant prove it by me.What I saw was murder,The hospice social worker said ,it wasent us it was the doctor,I told her"well he was the judge and jurey and you were the executioner................A hell of a way for a
good man to die,scared,and they bulled dog him and i,you know when you leave some one in a doctors care you expect more than what you get.
The doctor knew we did not beleive in hospice.He was a mean person,The day Joe died the doctor came in his room and when he left he said"If you
have to go this is the way to go"gasping for air
no water and everything drained out of you.......
buy the way he killed a ww2 veteran.Army and Navy. Some progress??????????????
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