Saturday, June 1, 2019

CANCER STATISTICS: Ugly


The Kelly girls, behaving badly
But they all have grown into young women of whom I am very proud

If you are in a euphoric mood and feel the need to regress back to reality, you can do worse than to glance at cancer statistic from NIH Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results, brought to you anew in easily accessed graphical form:


Particularly discouraging, to me, was the minuscule progress we have made against ovarian cancer since 1992.  The five-year survival rate of OVCA victims remains below 50%.  Miserable, disgraceful, and sad.

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