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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (160948)7/23/2009 9:18:46 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
Nope, cancer incidence rates (and thus mortality rates) are affected by lifestyle, race, lots of things other than the health care system.

Example, Australia is a country with a lot of people from the cloudy British isles relocated to sunny Australia and living an outdoor lifestyle - thats gonna affect their skin cancer rate. Another example, a country (like the US) with a goodly number of dark skinned tropical African descended folks living in a more northerly latitude and pursuing an indoor lifestyle there is going to have higher cancer rates just due to the fact some of the population dont get enough vitamin D from sunlight.

Survival rates only deal with those folks who have gotten cancer - the overall incidence due to lifestyle etc issues doesn't distort it.
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