Nina Niu Sanford, Assistant Professor and Chief of Gastrointestinal Radiation Oncology at Harvard/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital, shared a post X:
“Cancer incidence and mortality trends both matter.
For EOCRC, incidence rising faster than mortality isn’t best explained by overdiagnosis b/c:
1) stage-specific OS (esp IV) improved
2) low competing morbidity in young ppl means population-level mortality shifts slower to emerge.”
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