“Death rate from cancer now 25% lower than it was 25 years ago, report says”

“Death rate from cancer now 25% lower than it was 25 years ago, report says” January 9, 2017

 

Adjacent to the University of Utah
The Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City is an important center for both cancer research and treatment.  (Wikimedia Commons public domain)

 

There’s a virtually unending torrent of all kinds of bad news every day, and, more specifically, cancer is still a terrifying word.  (It’s hit our own neighborhood pretty hard over the past year or so, and I know of many families here and elsewhere who are sorrowing right now.)

 

But there are encouraging developments, too, and they shouldn’t be overlooked:

 

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-cancer-drop-20170105-story.html

 

I’m told that I hate and fear science, but I rather like this trend.


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