Dr. Dino Prato breaks down why the American Cancer Society's 70% survival rate headline is misleading. The statistic heavily weights early-stage cancers and ignores stage 3 and 4 patients whose cancer has spread to bones, liver, or brain.
The American Cancer Society wants you to celebrate that cancer survival is now 70% for the first time ever. We're winning the battle on cancer, right? And yet there's so many people we know that die. Here's what they don't say in the headlines, that the 70% is almost entirely early-stage cancers, cancers that never become stage 3 and 4 where they're metastasizing and spreading. If it's already in your bones, in your liver, in your brain, that 70% headline is a total lie. It's not about you.
