Short answer: Due to declining lethality from other diseases of aging, such as heart disease. “In 1958 when the diagram begins, the line for heart disease is decisively on top. But it plunges by 68 percent while cancer declines so slowly — by only about 10 percent — that the slope appears far less significant.”
Read the detailed analysis at The New York Times
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