Leading Causes Of Cancer Deaths
The New York Times, increasingly my favorite source for science news, has a nice piece today about many aspects of cancer from the patient’s point of view. It also highlights nicely with this graphic the ongoing dilemma the world faces in treating these cancers, particularly lung cancer, my field of interest.
It’s hard to believe, but lung cancer survival rates have made exceedingly little progress over the past several decades while practically every other cancer type has seen significant, if not phenomenal, advances in treatment successes. Lung cancer kills almost as many men than prostate, colorectal, and pancreas cancers combined in a given year and almost as many women as breast and colorectal cancers combined. That is simply astonishing.
