Do You Live In A Cancer Cluster? – IOTW Report

Do You Live In A Cancer Cluster?

The good news- overall cancer deaths in The United States are down 20%.
The bad news-  there are some regions of the nation where things haven’t gotten better.

“Of the 19.5 million cancer deaths on record during the 24-year period, nearly half came from three cancers:
Cancer of the lungs and airways took the lion’s share, followed by colorectal and breast cancers.”

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Living along the Mississippi doesn’t seem to be the all that healthy.

13 Comments on Do You Live In A Cancer Cluster?

  1. I live in central Guam. Hard water, tastes like
    mud water, and we have to demineralize our clothes
    washer. Borrowed a buddy’s TDS probe and our average
    water reading was 500-800 PPM solids. We only drink
    filtered and bottled water at home, and don’t cook with
    it. I suggest everybody do it. A water TDS detector is
    CHEAP on that amazonian thing.

  2. Not surprised to see high cancer rates in Eastern KY and southern WV. Between coal mining and being forgotten poor white Appalachians, these folks don’t stand a chance.

  3. According to the map, I live in a low-cancer area, but read every week about another poor schmuck dying or getting cancer. Maybe once they get cancer they emigrate to somewhere they think they can get better care, thus it becomes a high-cancer area?

    izlamo delenda est …

  4. Looking at the map two things jump out at you. The highest rates of cancer are recorded in areas where a lot of people live AND more importantly where people have longer life expectancies. Since cancer is a disease of old age this might mean more than the part of the country.
    Second the really low incidence areas of cancer are in sparsely populated parts of the country. Lower statistical populations tend to skew results. But more importantly they fall in areas where because of alcoholism and higher traffic deaths life expectancy is below average. Again since cancer is mostly a disease of old age dying young prevents cancer and skews the stats.

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