EVALUATION OF CANCER CONTROL METHODS IN CONNECTICUT

Abstract

Analysis of the first total tables from the record registry in Connecticut enables one to evaluate cancer control methods for the past twelve years. The sources of factual information are the death rates, the attendance of patients with cancer at the clinics or general hospitals, the intervals of delay between symptoms and treatment and the attendance of physicians in the mutual educational program. The age-adjusted cancer death rates are shown in table 1.¹ The age-adjusted male cancer death rate has risen during the twelve year period, but appears to be leveling. The female age-adjusted cancer death rate has fallen. Since the average duration of life of all cancer patients is two years from the onset of the disease, the mortality rates of any year actually are a measure of events of two years before a retroactive index of progress. With this thought in mind, the gradual leveling of the