Index 
Death Medical Morality
The quotes below are from the National Institutes Of Health Fact Sheets and express common medical morality with which I strongly disagree. Is the ultimate goal immortality through medicine (science)? Has science replaced God as the vain hope for immoratlity? The table below seems to confirm falsely the quest; the facts are that modern medicine has done very little to extend the lives of old folk; despite the improvement in 5-year survival rates among common cancers: | ||||||||
| Year | Incidence/105 | Breast | Prostrate | Lung | Colorectal | Bladder | Children | All Cancer |
| 1976 | 400 | 75 | 69 | 13 | 51 | 74 | 62 | 50 |
| 2006 | 461 | 90 | 100 | 16 | 67 | 81 | 81 | 68 |
The dramatic increase in 5-year relative survival for prostate cancer seen since the mid-1970s is due, in part, to the fact that most men diagnosed with this disease today are diagnosed through screening (e.g., prostate-specific antigen [PSA] testing), and, overall, screened men tend to be healthier (and live longer) than average men—a phenomenon known as the “healthy screenee” effect. We will continue our overall efforts to control cancer by lowering the risk of developing cancer, increasing the cure rate of cancer, and converting to the status of a chronic disease those cancers that are not cured. | ||||||||