Topic: news Cancer in China: Survival Rate Much Lower Than In Developed Countries

The worry about high cancer rates is relevant. But the worry about low cancer survival rates isn't. Because survival rates are a highly deceptive concept that has no meaningful association with mortality rates, yet because it, falsely, makes orthodox cancer interventions look more beneficial than what they're really are the medical industry and those who don't understand these statistics (most people don't, including most doctors) have been using them as a convincing advertising tool for their products (read the afterword of this article on the war on cancer: do a search engine query for "A Mammogram Letter The British Medical Journal Censored". Focusing on China's rising social-ecological issues would do multiple time more good in terms of cancer than a focus on "early detection and treatment" for cancer. But that's unlikely to happen because the big profits are in the latter approach ...