Sunday, May 26, 2013

Statistics lessons

In considering ovarian cancer, I keep trying to understand the numbers. I try to understand the cancer numbers overall too. For example in 2013, the projections are for 1,660,290 new cases of cancer, that's 1600 per day!! Ovarian cancer is about 22,000 per year, or about 60 per day, with more than 14,000 dying each year or about 39 per day. Ovarian cancer is only 3% of all cancers but 5% of all cancer deaths. Yet, no one discusses it, a truly silent killer.

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