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Because Everyone Dies of Something

Today’s Daily from Statcan contained this gem, under new releases:

Study: Cancer prevalence in the Canadian population, as of January 1, 2005
Because of increases in the detection of cancer and improving survival, the number of Canadians living with cancer is rising.

In short: Cancer rates are rising because things are getting better.

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