How accurate are the cancer-death statistics reported by the American Cancer Society?

I have checked with others and we are concerned that the fiqures are not accurate in regards to the number of deaths from cancer each year. Death certificates indicate death from respiratory or heart failure or some other condition. But these complications were the result of the cancer the person had. I don't believe the American people are being given a true picture about the number of deaths due to cancer each year. And what can be done to make the reports more accurate?

How accurate are the cancer-death statistics reported by the American Cancer Society?
The problems is that older ppl that have cancer have other diseases especially heart problems and they die from those other diseases before the cancer. It isn't the cancer that kills them.


Believe it or not there are many people that die of natural causes have cancer. It isn't misleading it is just the way it is.





You need to have a better understanding of cancer instead of your assuming false information of inaccurate reporting.
Reply:Your problem is the inability to think. You are trying to relate false information to reasearch money flow. That makes no sense. Many ppl live with cancer and dying of heart or respiratory failure with no relationship to the cancer they might have. Report Abuse

Reply:Your money reasearch flow is totally a different issue. How the death issue is reported has very little to do with the reasearch that goes into it. We have spent billions on research and on telling people on the risks of smoking and pple still choice to do so .


Wake up! Report Abuse

Reply:You are misinformed. If you have ever seen a death certificate there are lines that describe what caused the immediate death (respiratory failure) and two lines to explain the CONSEQUENCES that led to the death like CANCER. Report Abuse

Reply:Each country in the world keeps a cancer registry to keep tract of cancer and statistics. In the US the statistics are further broken down by state, county, and sometimes city.





It is not just the American Cancer Society that keeps tract of statistics . . there are other organizations too. You can compare the statistics from these organizations to see how well it matches ACS. ACS you should know conducts their own investigations which is than documented at Entrez PubMed . . they will provide the details if you look there (National Library of Medicine).





http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query...





You can find all this information online from World Health Organization (WHO):


http://www.who.int/topics/cancer/en/





May require you to download information:





Cancer Mondial


http://www-dep.iarc.fr/





The International Agency for Research on Cancer


http://www.iarc.fr/





European Network of Cancer Registries


http://www.encr.com.fr/





BC Cancer Agency


http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/HPI/CancerStat...





Pan American Health Organization


http://www.paho.org/english/hcp/hcn/pcc/...





Canadian Cancer Registry


http://www.statcan.ca/cgi-bin/imdb/p2SV....





National Program for Cancer Registries


http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr/uscs/





NCI: SEER


http://seer.cancer.gov/





NCI: US Cancer Statistics


http://www.cancer.gov/statistics/





Incidence and mortality rates in Europe


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query...





Eash US state has a cancer registry that you can locate by going to the state government site and searching for the program.