How Accurate Are The Cancer-death Statistics Reported By The American Cancer Society?

I have checked with others and we are concerned that the fiqures are not accurate in regards to the number of deaths from cancer each year. Death certificates indicate death from respiratory or heart failure or some other condition. But these complications were the result of the cancer the person had. I don’t believe the American people are being given a true picture about the number of deaths due to cancer each year. And what can be done to make the reports more accurate?


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2 Responses to “How Accurate Are The Cancer-death Statistics Reported By The American Cancer Society?”

  1. The problems is that older ppl that have cancer have other diseases especially heart problems and they die from those other diseases before the cancer. It isn’t the cancer that kills them.
    Believe it or not there are many people that die of natural causes have cancer. It isn’t misleading it is just the way it is.
    You need to have a better understanding of cancer instead of your assuming false information of inaccurate reporting.

  2. Each country in the world keeps a cancer registry to keep tract of cancer and statistics. In the US the statistics are further broken down by state, county, and sometimes city.
    It is not just the American Cancer Society that keeps tract of statistics . . there are other organizations too. You can compare the statistics from these organizations to see how well it matches ACS. ACS you should know conducts their own investigations which is than documented at Entrez PubMed . . they will provide the details if you look there (National Library of Medicine).http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query…
    You can find all this information online from World Health Organization (WHO):http://www.who.int/topics/cancer/en/
    May require you to download information:
    Cancer Mondialhttp://www-dep.iarc.fr/
    The International Agency for Research on Cancer http://www.iarc.fr/
    European Network of Cancer Registrieshttp://www.encr.com.fr/
    BC Cancer Agencyhttp://www.bccancer.bc.ca/HPI/CancerStat…
    Pan American Health Organizationhttp://www.paho.org/english/hcp/hcn/pcc/…
    Canadian Cancer Registryhttp://www.statcan.ca/cgi-bin/imdb/p2SV.…
    National Program for Cancer Registrieshttp://www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr/uscs/
    NCI: SEERhttp://seer.cancer.gov/
    NCI: US Cancer Statisticshttp://www.cancer.gov/statistics/
    Incidence and mortality rates in Europehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query…
    Eash US state has a cancer registry that you can locate by going to the state government site and searching for the program.

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