[Fwd: The Politics of Cancer]

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

James McCarthy wrote:
>The figures refer to the percentages who will be diagnosed with cancer at
>some point in their lives, not necessarily in the calendar year 1999. And
>the figures are correct, and will almost certainly continue to rise in the
>foreseeable future -- they have been rising steadily in the postwar period.

Has the figure been rising because of our longer life expectancy?

Yoshie