About a million people aged below 50 die of cancer annually, a study says, projecting another 21 percent rise by 2030.

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    1 year ago

    A post-mortem is not what most people think of when talking about cancer diagnostics.

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      Well, the article refers to both :)

      I think you’d be right about the “number of diagnoses” statement in the title, but I think the discussion is about the deaths due to cancer, which have also increased and would not have as strong of a correlation for the reasons others mentioned

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        But that’s directly related. People used to die when “catching a cold”. We call that lung cancer nowadays. Same thing with many other branches of cancer.