>On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Colin Brace wrote:
>
>>Your assertion that "cancers take a long time to develop" does not
>>gibe with the veritable plague of childhood cancers and breast cancers
>>among middle-aged women these days.
>
>According to this
><http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2003/results_merged/topic_inc_mor_trends.pdf>,
>cancer mortality rates have been declining among those 64 and under
>in the US.
I think it is important to know about the diagnosis of various cancers, too. Of course, reducing cancer mortality is a good thing, just like surviving a gunshot wound is better than dying of one. But, are there more cancer occurrences now, compared with 100 years ago or 1000 years ago? I think there might be -- does anyone know?
Keith