Re: US PATENT #6288045 entitled "Epithelial Cell Cancer Drug"

Eva <EvaDStructionNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The OP wrote:
> > > ....the incidence of cancer is
> > > increasing and the overall survival is no better than it was 50 years
> > > ago.
> -------------
> Is there any truth to the claim that the overall survival [rate?] is no
> better than it was in 1955? This seems hard to believe....Unless what he
> means is that everyone eventually dies, so the survival rate is always zero?
>

No, there's no truth in that claim.
The incidence of (some) cancers is increasing, others receding.
The survival rates are rising.
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