#mortality statistics

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Cancer Facts & Figures 2018 | Common Cancer Types

Common types of cancer:

This list of common types of cancer includes the cancers that are diagnosed most frequently in the United States, excluding non-melanoma skin cancers:

Bladder Cancer

Breast Cancer

Colon and Rectal Cancer

Endometrial Cancer

Kidney Cancer

Leukemia

LiverLung Cancer

Melanoma

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Pancreatic Cancer

Prostate Cancer

Thyroid Cancer 

Cancer incidence and mortality statistics reported by the American Cancer Society and other resources were used to create the list. To qualify as common cancer for the list, the estimated annual incidence for 2018 was 40,000 cases or more.

The most common type of cancer on the list is breast cancer, with 268,670 new cases expected in the United States of America in 2018. The next most common cancers are lung cancer and prostate cancer.

Because colon and rectal cancers are often referred to as "colorectal cancers," these two cancers combine for the list. By 2018, the estimated number of new cases of colon cancer and rectal cancer is 97,220 and 43,030, respectively, adding up to a total of 140,250 new cases of colorectal cancer.

The following table shows the estimated number of new cases and deaths for each common types of cancer:

References:

American Cancer Society: Cancer Facts and Figures 2018. Atlanta, Ga: American Cancer Society, 2018.

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Red state governors sacrificed 200,000 Americans to COVID-19

Movie depictions of human sacrifice are usually pretty straightforward: There’s an altar. There’s a knife. Sometimes the scenes take place o

"But during the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans witnessed an actual mass human sacrifice that came with a different kind of ceremony and distinctive ritual chants. Those ceremonies took place in red state governors’ offices and the chants intoned “freedom” as these elected officials fought against closing schools, blocked mask mandates, and belittled the effectiveness of vaccines.

According to a paper published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, an enormous number of Americans died unnecessarily during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those deaths can’t be laid at the feet of Donald Trump for his diminishment of the threat and mishandling of the consequences. This tragic phenomenon was more local.

As many as one-quarter of a million Americans died simply because their state governments refused to impose good public health standards. They died as appeasements to the twin gods of ignorance and politics."

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Relatedly, recall this research:

People in States With Conservative Policies Are More Likely to Die Early, Study Finds

The researchers found, if left-leaning policies were implemented nationwide, they may have saved 171,030 lives in 2019.

"Working-age people living in states governed largely with conservative policies are more likely to die early than people in states with more left-leaning policies, a new study finds, corroborating observations and theories that left-wing political commentators have maintained for years.

The study, published this week in PLOS ONE, analyzed a wide swath of policies relating to the criminal legal system, health care, taxes, climate and the environment, firearms, and labor, rating them between a 0 and 1 scale, where zero is the maximum conservative score and one is the maximum left-leaning score. They compared those policies with mortality rates in a 20-year span between 1999 and 2019.

The authors found that the rate of death among people between 25 and 64 in states with predominantly conservative policies was higher than in states with predominantly liberal policies. In nearly every policy area that the authors analyzed, left-leaning policies were associated with a lower rate of death."

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DWP disclose controversial mortality rates of those awaiting PIP assessments

DWP disclose controversial mortality rates of those awaiting PIP assessments

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has disclosed  that over 21,000 ill and disabled people died waiting for their Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment to be completed, between April 2013 and 30 April 2018. PIP is claimed by people with a range of health conditions and disabilities, many of which are chronic, degenerative or life limiting.

Sarah Newton, the Minister of State for…

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FastStats

FastStats is an official application from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and puts access to topic-specific statistics at your fingertips.

As the deaths of the famous and quasi-famous continue to dominate the news, you may be starting to wonder about your own mortality.  Perhaps when people reach a certain age, a larger percentage of their peers, both unknown and well know, simply start to pass away?  How long can we all expect to live?  The Life Expectancy page on the FastStats site from the National Center for Health Statistics may provide the data you'd need to answer those questions.  But, if you don't want to spend what little time you may have left digging through the site, average life expectancy as of 2013 was 78.8 years.

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The Tories are epistemological fascists

The Tories are epistemological fascists

The release of mortality statistics related to sickness and disability benefits has caused fierce debate about what the figures actually mean. It has to be said that the way the figures were presented – in a flat descriptive way – makes drawing causal links and inferences very difficult and making useful comparisons impossible. This of course was intentional.

There’s a simple difference between…

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Questions have been raised over the value of mortality statistics published for NHS hospitals, after an academic taking part in a review of their use branded them "spurious" and said the public would be better off ignoring them. Source: Press Association