Better detection methods usually means an increased number of diagnoses.

Not to mention people being more aware of the fact that they should go and get tested periodically.

Not if everyone gets hit by a bus.

Baby Boomers are getting older... more people = more cancer diagnosed.

Uakronkid: Better detection methods usually means an increased number of diagnoses.

That's crazy talk. This is obviously the fault of the ozone disappearing, greenhouse gasses, disappearing whale populations and increased sightings of La Chupacabra.

/adjusts tin foil hat

I hate to sound so cynical on such a meritorious website as Fark, but having grown up in the shadow of Upjohn/Pharmacia/Pfizer, my guess is that means trillions of new dollars freed up for cancer research and...still no cure, at least until the baby boomers are gone and most of the population is middle-aged or younger...

Uakronkid: Better detection methods usually means an increased number of diagnoses.

That, and an increase in the incidence of pirates.

the longer you live, the longer your organs, tissues, really all cells have to fail in new and interesting ways.

kippyj: I hate to sound so cynical on such a meritorious website as Fark, but having grown up in the shadow of Upjohn/Pharmacia/Pfizer, my guess is that means trillions of new dollars freed up for cancer research and...still no cure, at least until the baby boomers are gone and most of the population is middle-aged or younger...

Why do you have to ruin the joy of a cancer thread... geez.

What is: More old people and more minorities living long enough to be old people.

I'll take non-news for those who know statistics for $1000, Alex

Time to invest in Chemo technologies?

break out the chemdog

And for the record, better detection methods != better outcomes. Simply more treatment.

/And yes, the treatment can be worse than the actual disease

Barbecue Bob: Time to invest in Chemo technologies?

When the government socializes healthcare and nationalizes all the companies that provide treatment, you will lose your investment.

Kohl: the longer you live, the longer your organs, tissues, really all cells have to fail in new and interesting ways.

Well if you believe the scientists, aging is just evolution gone wrong. Just look at the biblical case of Methuselah.

NetPimp: Kohl: the longer you live, the longer your organs, tissues, really all cells have to fail in new and interesting ways.

Well if you believe the scientists, aging is just evolution gone wrong. Just look at the biblical case of Methuselah.

No, aging is a reflection that living beings have a finite life span, and the only way to really live forever is to ensure you have enough kids, and that those kids get a really good start.

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eqtworld: Barbecue Bob: Time to invest in Chemo technologies?

When the government socializes healthcare and nationalizes all the companies that provide treatment, you will lose your investment.

I couldn't hear your comment over the sound of me making my investment in Chemo technologies.

"Also alarming is that a number of the types of cancers that are expected to increase, such as liver, stomach and pancreas, still have tremendously high mortality rates."

Dude, you should see the mortality rate on life. It's 100%.

/Looking forward to dying of some sports related accident
//When sex becomes an Olympic sport
///Maybe combine Yoga with Fencing...

Uakronkid: Better detection methods usually means an increased number of diagnoses.

THIS.

Is what I came here to say.

Evil Twin Skippy: "Also alarming is that a number of the types of cancers that are expected to increase, such as liver, stomach and pancreas, still have tremendously high mortality rates."

Dude, you should see the mortality rate on life. It's 100%.

/Looking forward to dying of some sports related accident
//When sex becomes an Olympic sport
///Maybe combine Yoga with Fencing...

Wow...someone woke up on the pessimistic side of the bed this morning!

Evil Twin Skippy: NetPimp: Kohl: the longer you live, the longer your organs, tissues, really all cells have to fail in new and interesting ways.

Well if you believe the scientists, aging is just evolution gone wrong. Just look at the biblical case of Methuselah.

No, aging is a reflection that living beings have a finite life span, and the only way to really live forever is to ensure you have enough kids, and that those kids get a really good start.

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Wait ... aren't we all gonna die of swine flu? I'm confused!

You know hardly anybody dies of cancer in third world countries...

because they die from some random disease before they get old enough to die from cancer.

/Had an Ethiopian cab driver try to convince me they had no cancer because of all the hot food they ate.
//OK buddy LOL.

pc_doc_54: Wait ... aren't we all gonna die of swine flu? I'm confused!

Swine flu causes cancer, obviously.

It's ok. The government will take control and ration care like they do in Canada and Europe, and everyone will die.

JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: You know hardly anybody dies of cancer in third world countries...

because they die from some random disease before they get old enough to die from cancer.

/Had an Ethiopian cab driver try to convince me they had no cancer because of all the hot food they ate.
//OK buddy LOL.

Or rather, the food that don't eat.

/Aisle seat, please

Weaver95: In non-white individuals over the same 20-year span, the incidence is expected to increase by 100 percent, from 330,000 to 660,000.

so all the brown people in the world are gonna die?

My girlfriend is of Native descent, and she just learned she has a cancerous brain tumor on Friday.

There are no kicks to be had from this thread.

I never cared much to think about cancer, despite making friends with someone who had beaten cancer in the past, and despite having my own grandmother undergoing chemo just last year, until now. Let me tell you, it might sound silly, but from here on out, every "...still no cure for cancer" headlines are going to get a frown from me.

/This case of the Mondays is brought to you by the letter C.

Welcome, in part, to the poisoned world we live in.

pc_doc_54: Wait ... aren't we all gonna die of swine flu? I'm confused!

Also confused here. I thought HIV carrying Mosquito's were supposed to kill off the human race a few years ago?

We're only gonna die from our own arrogance, that's why we might as well take our time.

JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: You know hardly anybody dies of cancer in third world countries...

because they die from some random disease before they get old enough to die from cancer.

/Had an Ethiopian cab driver try to convince me they had no cancer because of all the hot food they ate.
//OK buddy LOL.

my cabby told me I was wasting time with medical research - his tribe had long known that honey was the cure to everything. They ate tons of honey and no one ever got sick.

/serious as a myocardial infarct

If I never saw 'EVERYBODY' in all caps again it will be too soon

As a couple people already pointed out this is basically taking common knowledge (more old people) with random statistics that have no correlation to each other. Will there actually be more cancer, or will we just be realizing that more people have it? Will there be less in the younger populations? What will cause this cancer?

/You know if another person in the US dies of swine flu that's a 100% increase in deaths!
//there should be laws against inducing terror in the population.

It is the proliferation of french fries and BBQ pork that is causing all this. Mark my words.

Isn't it past time for some of this generation to renew. Check their palms.

/Logan's Run

Is it from better tests and a public health campaign to encourage regular screening? Oh, and the whole huge aging population thing.

If so, then it's kind of a big "duh" sort of thing.

Kohl: the longer you live, the longer your organs, tissues, really all cells have to fail in new and interesting ways.

Yep. Grandma's oncologist said, "EVERYBODY would get cancer if they lived long enough."

Evil Twin Skippy:

/And yes, the treatment can be worse than the actual disease

Tell me about it. My father-in-law had colon cancer, and died of complications from the surgery a few weeks ago. Ironically, when he died, he was cancer-free though.

Evil Twin Skippy:
Dude, you should see the mortality rate on life. It's 100%.

I hold great hope for medicine in the coming years, especially concerning stem cells. Sooner or later most of our health problems are going to vanish. Cancer? Take a pill. AIDS? pill. Fat? Smoker? No long term health risk period. The advances just of the last hundred years so outpace the rest of recorded human history that the next fifty should be exciting (well, as exciting as fifty year period can be)

flyingmonkeysreign 2009-05-04 10:59:14 AM
I hold great hope for medicine in the coming years, especially concerning stem cells. Sooner or later most of our health problems are going to vanish. Cancer? Take a pill. AIDS? pill. Fat? Smoker? No long term health risk period. The advances just of the last hundred years so outpace the rest of recorded human history that the next fifty should be exciting (well, as exciting as fifty year period can be)

utopia means "nowhere"

Bartleby the Scrivener: flyingmonkeysreign 2009-05-04 10:59:14 AM
I hold great hope for medicine in the coming years, especially concerning stem cells. Sooner or later most of our health problems are going to vanish. Cancer? Take a pill. AIDS? pill. Fat? Smoker? No long term health risk period. The advances just of the last hundred years so outpace the rest of recorded human history that the next fifty should be exciting (well, as exciting as fifty year period can be)

utopia means "nowhere"

Well, solving health problems certainly doesn't mean utopia. He also doesn't imply that these treatments will be available to everyone...

Uakronkid: Better detection methods usually means an increased number of diagnoses.

Tell this to the Vaccinations cause autism folks. They still won't get it.

flyurchin: Well, solving health problems certainly doesn't mean utopia. He also doesn't imply that these treatments will be available to everyone...

take a pill, man.

No President Madagascar?