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- From: bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris)
- Subject: Re: A GREAT Night for Americans! (Women especially!)
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:34:37 GMT
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- In article <Bxo4GF.CAp@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
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- ) Prostate cancer probaby is underfunded on this basis, but this
- ) is changing as more men are willing to go public about it. (my
- ) father died of prostate cancer, BTW). Also note the demographics
- ) of prostate cancer: it's extremely common in old men, but mostly
- ) it's a very slow grower and most prostate cancer victims die
- ) of natural causes. This has tended to result in less urgency
- ) about it. But now that men are living longer this is changing.
- )
- ) Also, note that the epidemiology of lung cancer and stroke are
- ) relatively well understood compared to other deadly diseases
- ) (likewise AIDS but this does nothing for those already HIV+).
- ) That is, we alredy know how to greatly reduce the number of deaths
- ) from these diseases in the next few decades. And indeed, as
- ) smoking declines lung cancer is expected to decline, too.
- ) But we don't have a clue how to significantly reduce the risks
- ) of breast and prostate cancer.
- )
- ) Bottom line: the table above is all apples-and-oranges.
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- I'd agree that it isn't fair to compare AIDS to cancer using current deaths
- However, it seems reasonably fair to me to compare two cancers.
- I'm not sure I understand your argument why lung cancer/stroke are
- 'apples and oranges' compared to breast cancer. Is there a difference in
- cure rate, or is it just 'don't smoke' and 'don't eat fatty food' that makes
- you say we have 'an answer' to them? If that's the case, is 'don't have
- unsafe sex' an 'answer' for AIDS deaths?
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