Cancer mortality increased from 1 in 188 in 1900 to 1 in 3 by 2010.

“cancer in 1811 so there's data that shows that in the town of boston it's funny to call it a town but it was about 30 000 people in 1811 and they have this these statistics on the causes of death well five of 942 people died of cancer in boston in 1811. that's one in 188 deaths by 1900 we the the prevalence of that i'm sorry cancer caused 5.7 or 5.8 percent of deaths it was 1 in 17. all right so by 2010 we're at 31.2 so again it's almost one and three so we went from in 1811 1 in 188 people died of cancer to 1900 1 and 17 to 2010 one in three”