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brec's avatar

Those factors seem reasonable. I am curious, though, about the discontinuity in the slope of rate ca. 1990.

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Liberty's avatar

Good question. I'd love to see the same graph for smoking incidence... ad maybe bannnig smoking in most public places

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brec's avatar

Cancer age-adjusted death rate: anybody know what happened or started ca. 1990?

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Liberty's avatar

Saloni writes:

"This reduction comes from several factors: better screening and earlier diagnosis, medical advances in cancer treatments, and public health efforts to reduce risk factors like smoking and exposure to carcinogens."

But each of those could be it's own rabbit hole, I'm sure.

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TSOH Investment Research's avatar

Thanks Liberty!

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Liberty's avatar

I'm looking forward to getting the book in the mail! 💚 🥃

If you ever write another, you better talk to me first, Infinite Books may have a better deal for you ;)

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