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I'd get this if we were talking about say influenza incidence rates, or cancer survival rates, but not cancer incidence rates.

Given the progressive and terminal nature of cancer, there comes a point where any relatively modern healthcare system will be forced to diagnose it.

That said, non-malignant tumors and other "could be cancer if you squint a bit" like states are relatively common in perfectly healthy people. If you go looking for them on a shoot first and ask questions later, you might very well inflate incidence rates quite significantly. The economic incentives at least in the US healthcare system seems to strongly favor discovering new diagnoses, whether or not they are actually there.




> the US healthcare system seems to strongly favor discovering new diagnoses, whether or not they are actually there.

I tend to agree, but the system in Korea and Japan is even more pro-active afaiu.




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