Posted: Jul 30, 2016 9:40 pm
igorfrankensteen wrote:It is the CAUSES or TRIGGERS of cancer which have changed, and been added to, over time.
This is another example of poor science reporting. A prejudiced journalist discovers that an assumption they made is false, and assumes their false assumption was universal, and not just peculiar to them.
Not quite. People get the idea that cancer is a 'modern' disease because so many people die from it now, but their impression is wrong, and that's because so many of the older causes of death have been eliminated, that it just seems cancer is 'new'. The reality is that those who may have eventually succumbed to cancer died from some other cause before they could develop a terminal case.