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How can Smart Planet get it so mixed up?
Posted by dduggerbiocepts
28th Sep
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Mixing apples and oranges
Posted by Greenknight_z
29th Sep
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How can Smart Planet get it so mixed up?
Actually, this story is totally illogical, misleading - if not completely erroneous. While these cancer rates will decline, it will be from the reduction in the one factor that causes all of them - inflammation. Diet - especially the intake of imbalanced fats (omega 3/6 ratios ) reducing arachidonic acid cascade bi-product levels, excess sugar (processed simple carbohydrates) - the resulting obesity, and yes obviously smoking - all produce the inflammation that cause the bulk of these cancers - and diabetes. It won't be the screening programs that reduce the cancer rates - screening has no impact on cancer development - just survival rates once you have it.
Posted by dduggerbiocepts
28th Sep
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What savings?
Add to that comment that the cost spent per person doesn't necessary decrease due to higher survival rates. In fact, logically, if those people don't die they will surely incur additional health costs in the future.
There is no savings in survival. There is savings in prevention.
There is no savings in survival. There is savings in prevention.
Posted by Havokmon
28th Sep
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Mixing apples and oranges
You're talking about two different things. You say "cancer rates" but the charts are all about death rates from cancer, which is not the same thing.
Posted by Greenknight_z
29th Sep