From Eric Kvaalen
In your special report on the future of healthcare in the UK, you say: “If the low rates of cancer seen in the richer portion of UK society were replicated across the nation, 19,200 fewer people would die every year” (21 March, p 22). People who don’t die of cancer die of something else. What one can say is that 19,200 people would live longer lives.
Les Essarts-le-Roi, France
