Can we defeat cancer?

Are you afraid of dying from cancer?  I am, because I have a family history of cancer. I also know how much one can suffer with cancer. And cancer is hitting people more and more now. The chance that you’ll die from cancer is about 20 to 25%. That’s a scary statistic. But is there anything we can do about it?  Or is it our destiny? Even though Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer a long time ago --in 1971-- we are still far away from defeating cancer.  But what about some official medical sources that are declaring victory over cancer? They claim declining cancer death rates, but many doctors believe that the decreased numbers are nothing but early detection and possibly incorrect reporting. I'm one of them. The numbers lie The math on survival rates due to early detection works as follows:  Suppose someone develops cancer at age 40, doesn’t get diagnosed until age 57 and dies from it at age 60—late detection means he only lived 3 years. Now imagine the same patient develops cancer at age 40, gets diagnosed earlier, at age 45, and dies at exactly the same age of 60.  He will be counted as a cancer survivor, having lived 15 years since his diagnosis!  But he still died at age 60! Do more people die from cancer than we think? Reporting is important too.  As a practicing physician, I know that patients rarely die from cancer itself.  They usually die from an infection like pneumonia. When those related illnesses are listed as the cause of death—not the c...
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