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omonra on Jan 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. cancer deaths have fallen 22% since 1991

Why do you think that any cause of death had to go up?

Overall US death rate went down from 8.5 to 8.0 between 1991 and 2011 (ie 6%). So every cause of death might have gone down (although I couldn't find the stats).

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005131.html

danieltillett on Jan 1, 2015 [–]

Not when Cancer is responsible for 1/3 of all deaths - the maths just don't work.

omonra on Jan 1, 2015 | [–]

23% (576k out of total 2515).

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929.php#top_10_l...

The rate of 169 per 100k is confirmed in this story as well.

danieltillett on Jan 1, 2015 | | [–]

The real answer is they are comparing age adjusted death rates per 100,000. This has fallen across the range of all causes of death by around 20%.

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