The Progress of Liberty

It is always delightful to have good news to write about. One of the most virulent killers of our time is giving way to the advances of technology and healthier living. Cancer death rates have been declining for several decades now, but cancer incidence rates – rates of new cancer cases emerging – have gone down for the first time in history during the current decade. This article from Reuters has some encouraging figures pertaining to the declines in the frequency of new cases for most cancers.

Improved medical technologies and increasing abandonment of unhealthy lifestyle choices such as smoking, as well as the increased frequency of early diagnosis of cancers, are responsible for the drop in cancer rates. We can only hope that this trend will continue, until cancer incidence is reduced to zero, and cancer will go the way of the bubonic plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, and other killers of our dark past.

Sincerely,
Gennady Stolyarov II

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