I know, I know, they don’t actually say it. This is invideous sensationalist journalism of the very worst kind. You are being led to believe that 10/35 diagnoses of prostate cancer result in death by prostate cancer.
Shonky Daily Telegraph article
The chaps at The Visible Hand can explain it I expect. Basically the 10,000 are not drawn from the pool of 35,000, they are drawn from all the people up to now who have been diagnosed and who are still alive. Not to mention that they don’t actually state that those men died of prostate cancer. They may have died from something else. All we know is they died.
Hmph
I suppose when a journalist has to simplify scientific reports enough to be understood by lay-readers, it is far too easy to end up with something that is misleading or just plain wrong.