Observed arrival · 2026-10-16
Cancer, in data: eight routes through the numbers
Interactive data stories compare 33 cancer types across incidence, deaths, survival, research activity, future burden, and rarity.
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- Its research comparison counts trials listing each cancer; multi-cancer trials are counted for every cancer they include, inflating rarer-cancer totals.
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The research view pairs annual deaths with active interventional trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov, and explicitly notes that trials covering multiple cancers are counted for each one. The survival section uses US SEER figures and separately links a Spain mortality comparison; the page cautions that US survival is higher than in many countries. Its deaths-per-100-diagnoses comparison is described as a rough measure, not a record of individual patient outcomes.
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