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Bending the Curve, Trial by Trial
An interactive history traces cancer-treatment advances through clinical-trial landmarks, alongside a chart of U.S. cancer survival.
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- Readers learning how cancer treatment developed
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- The chart separates observed SEER 8 survival figures from a dashed schematic and explicitly warns against causal interpretation.
Field notes
The timeline links individual entries to sources and spans topics from the Edwin Smith papyrus to screening trials and specific therapies. Its survival chart uses observed figures for 1975–2018 across eight SEER registry areas, not a whole-U.S. sample. The page also notes that survival statistics can shift with cancer mix and earlier detection, and cautions that the curve does not establish what caused the changes.
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