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Are cancer statistics in USA inaccurate?

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Are cancer statistics in USA inaccurate?

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Terrific knowledgeable answer by “Denisedd” below. Of course no set of statistics is perfect, but U.S. stats should be fairly close. As for insight, are you certain that your mom and the other 2 people you mention had “primary” brain malignancies? Many more people in the U.S. – tens of thousands more – die with lung cancers, breast cancers, and other types of malignancies that have spread to the brain. These are not counted in the U.S. stats as primary brain cancers – because they are not. By the way, the 2008 American Cancer Society statistics estimated 21,810 brain and other primary central nervous system malignancy diagnoses of various types – with 13,070 deaths, so your stats do not jive with the ACS. Added note – The “many more” people mentioned in the answer above who are said to have been cured or “healed by natural means with the help of diet, naturopathic doctors, or homeopathic doctors” are not recorded in any statistics – so how do we have proof that this occurs? How do we k

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