BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cancer Cell, Cell Growth, Aflatoxin
13 Apr 2020
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2. 2: cancer accounts for nearly one-quarter of deaths in the united states, exceeded only by heart disease. In 2001, there were 553,768 cancer deaths in the us: top 2 are 50% of all the deaths, cancer drugs are terrible; and pharmaceutical companies that make them can get away with almost any side effect. The older you get, the smaller the chance of surviving the cancer treatment. 1: there was a decrease to 180. 7 in 2006 but then it went back up again. Cancer death rates*, us: the age-adjusted death rate from all cancers combined stabilized from 1998 to 2000, after decreasing from. Us cancer death rates*, men: most of the increase in cancer death rates for men prior to 1990 was attributable to lung cancer. However, since 1990, the age-adjusted lung cancer death rate in men has been decreasing. Stomach cancer mortality has decreased considerably since 1930. Death rates from prostate and colorectal cancers have also been declining.
