The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
here cancer now accounts for 23% of all deaths in someone my age um the rate of cancer deaths again jumps sharply from 26 to now 88 per 100,000 and it technically ranks second um although I put a little asterisk here because here is where cancer and ascvd are constantly switching with each other so I would say it kind of ranks first or second here
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when you go out past 85 ascvd holds on to its number one spot and cancer takes the number three spot it tends to fall although its absolute numbers go up 1649 deaths per 100,000 Falls to 12% share
cancer now Falls to Second again ascvd takes over but cancer still accounts for a quarter of deaths but the absolute rate continues to rise it doubles again to 1,36 deaths per 100,000 people again ascvd is number one