What Saloni Dattani thinks about epidemiology

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Researcher at Our World in Data with a PhD in psychiatric genetics, and founding editor of Works in Progress. Writes Scientific Discovery, a newsletter on medical research and long-run trends in health and mortality.

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1. 24 Apr 2025

   Our readingThe fall in cancer mortality is not mostly the fall in smoking: stomach and colorectal cancer were already declining before smoking was.

   Their wordsIn my view, without smoking, we probably would have seen cancer mortality decline much earlier.

   ↗The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smokingscientificdiscovery.dev 1st of 2 in this piece