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Social drivers of cancer mortality

By | March 28, 2022

In 1981, Doll and Peto published a well-known paper estimating that roughly 75-80% of cancer mortality was preventable. Forty years later, cancer mortality has declined some overall – but we still see vast disparities. Some of these disparities have gotten worse over time. With the Biden administration’s reignited Cancer Moonshot initiative, combined with a renewed… Read More »