Talk:List of cancer mortality rates in the United States

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The data listed in this article is 20 years old, the survival rates have changed a lot since then (many have gone up) could we use a more up-to-date source for the numbers? For instance http://www.cancer.gov/statistics/find — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.28.149.129 (talk) 18:52, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

I have just update it with the data of the webpage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.6.28.78 (talk) 00:03, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

The date does't tell what country we are talking about. I suspect that the mortality rates in the 3. world may be way different from the rates in western Europe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.199.165.79 (talk) 20:10, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Editor Misread Lead-In "Percentage of cancer patients deceased within five years after cancer diagnosis:"
Editor reversed "Pancreatic" and "Prostate" death rates. That's understandable because cancer survival rates are usually used in the popular media, not death rates. Pancreatic cancer is listed at 92.3% deaths after 5 years, and prostate cancer is listed at a low 1.1%. This is correct. -- motorfingers : Talk 18:11, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Why the numbering?
I don't see the reason for making this an ordered list. It's not even evident what the cancers are sorted by. Also, the numbering restarts after each entry with subentries. It should be a table or an unordered list. --92.214.202.45 (talk) 19:44, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * No idea. You can change it if you like. Natureium (talk) 19:55, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

doesn't match the reference?
It is not clear to me how the data was translated from the reference https://seer.cancer.gov/archive/csr/1975_2017/results_single/sect_01_table.04_2pgs.pdf to the table.

For example,
 * in the reference: esophagal cancer is listed with an incidence of "4.3", a US mortality of "3.9", and a 5-year relative survival percentage of "19.9%".
 * this article lists esophogal cancer as having a mortality of "61".

How was this "61" calculated?