I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on US cancer mortality rates during the … pre‐dated factors that drove both innovation and mortality and that there would have been parallel trends in mortality in …-adjusted cancer mortality rate during 2000–2009. Drug innovation and imaging innovation are estimated to have reduced the cancer …

study was subject to a number of major methodological flaws. Many of their claims pertain to the role of infant mortality …. I show that infant mortality was not an important determinant of the growth in U.S. life expectancy during the period … that I studied, and that my estimates are completely insensitive to the inclusion or exclusion of infant mortality …