@15:40 early detection is the way to eliminate cancer: https://youtu.be/iUqgTYbkHP8 https://youtu.be/iUqgTYbkHP8?t=15m37s
The reason people die from pancreatic cancer when they get it is because we can’t detect it early.
The article provides no numbers about cancer rate dropping. Yet the false association between the two ideas is so strong that even the authors themselves seem to theorize that the cancer rate itself is dropping because people don't smoke as often now.
Conflating those two concepts seems like a Very Bad Idea
The rate of people getting cancer in the US is a different question, but presumably it’s been increasing due to the aging population independent of other causes. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241494/median-age-of-the...