[ale] OT: OT OT OT and very long! Anybody sick today?

[Robert Reese]

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On 12/30/2003 at 2:00 PM Charles Shapiro wrote:

>You right of course. Must be all that Holistic Medicine we use
>today. It's much more common now than it was before all those
>sinister drug companies started using science and technology in
>health care. Heck, witch doctors had far happier patients than
>today's impersonal, painful, dangerous medical technologists. Of
>course, a lot more of those 
>patients died.

ROFL!


>As for cancer being a disease of late life, I can refer you to
>http://www.iongen.com/iongen-engl/html/MarketFacts_4_29.html. Some
>cancers do of course manifest themselves early in life, but over
>half the folks diagnosed with cancer in the United States are over
>65, while about 1 in 6 are younger than 50.

- From your link above: "In 2002, from a total of 1.22 million new
cancer patients in the US, 59% were older than 65 years and 30%
(366.030) were older than 75 years. Only 15% of new patients were
younger than 50 years. The average age of patients at the time of the
initial diagnosis varies between different cancer indications from 34
years (testis) to 73 years (gallbladder)."

+ These are _new_ cases, not existing.
+ This is data from just one year.
+ Only 59% where over 65.  That means more than 2/5 of new patients
are under 65.
+ The average age differs with different types of cancer.
+ I'd kinda like to know the source of their data anyway.  Probably
from the CDC as you indicate.


>I'm getting bored with this and should probably stop.

It's definitely off-topic anyway, though I must admit it felt good to
excersize the logic lobes.

Peace,
Robert Reese~

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