[Fwd: The Politics of Cancer]

[Frances Bolton (PHI)]

On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> >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?
> 
Rising prostate cancer rates are partially a result of longer life
expectancy. Don't know about other kinds.

frances