New State-By-State Cancer Data Released

[ethics]

The U.S. government released its first state-by-state report on cancer on Monday and said it can use the information to find unusual patterns in cancer incidence.

Careful analysis of the data should reveal patterns of disease that may prove important, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites), which released the report, said.


The report can be seen on the Internet at http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/transcripts/t021118.htm

Or the news report with a downloadable PDF File of the full report:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=585&ncid=585&e=13&u=/nm/20021118/sc_nm/health_cancer_usa_dc_2

[Pyrion]

Might wanna fix the link. :)

[Pyrion]

Then again maybe not. ;)

[ethics]

LOL! :)

[Misu]

This could prove to be an extremely important tool for the CDC - they'll be able to detect high-risk areas sooner, hopefully saving some lives in the process.

I think it's great - I'm surprised this wasn't in place before. I thought things like this were already being kept track of.

[ethics]

Originally posted by Misu


I think it's great - I'm surprised this wasn't in place before. I thought things like this were already being kept track of.

After re-reading the article, so was I. I honestly didn't know they never did this before and the article pissed me off more than it did anything positive for my outlook on government run "corporations" like CDC.

Oh yeah, I am happy now, but come on. How many years did we waste here while other countries were able to map this information out?

[Pyrion]

Enough years for us to realize that AIDS is actually a problem, I suppose. Either that or somebody walked into the CDC headquarters with a cattle prod.

[ShinyTop]

Just a SWAG here, but I suspect that the CDC has little power to order stats from anybody. Could be mistaken.