3 In the article, Dr. Bailar noted that from 1962 to 1982, the number of Americans who died of cancer increased by 56 percent (see Figure 1.2). Adjusting for population growth, this still represented a 25 percent increase in the rate of death from cancer, at a time when death rates from virtually every other disease were dropping quickly; crude death rates from causes other than cancer had decreased by 24 percent.
