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Is cancer really a disease of the industrialised society or...

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Tinker · 23/06/2006 09:54

...would most of us get it eventually if we lived long enough? Are there really isolated societies where it is unknown?

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colditz · 23/06/2006 15:56

almost every woman shaves their armpits and uses deodorant. that's like saying people who drink water are at greater risk of cancer, because water is found in tumours.

Elibean · 23/06/2006 16:38

'would most of us get it if we lived long enough?'.....well, my granny is 99+ and no cancer in sight, so I guess there's a genetic component involved, not just environment/society. She lives in Paris, eats whatever she pleases (ie not organic or particularly healthy) and her husband was a big time smoker (who died of pulmonary embolism, not surprisingly).

There you go, brother-bashing fodder

VVVQV · 23/06/2006 16:51

Doesnt explain why young children get cancer,
old age, does it?

The only people that might know the answer is a forensic anthropologist or such like.

Who knows if children who died at a young age a hundred years ago didnt die of malnutrition/flu/whatever but died of cancer instead?

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