<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm about 95% with Doug on this thread, but the trends in cancer incidence from 1975-2003 are more complex. Age-adjusted incidence rates climbed from 1975-1992, and have decreased since. Age-adjusted incidence rates are still higher today than they were in 1975. See <<A href="http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2003/results_merged/topic_annualrates.pdf">http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2003/results_merged/topic_annualrates.pdf</A>><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We'd need much longer-term data to find out if there's a general correlation between cancer incidence and industrialization. And of course attributing causation would be one big can o' worms. Does anyone know the literature in this field (data-driven, not just conjecture or polemic)?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Aug 8, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">According to this <<A href="http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2003/results_merged/topic_inc_mor_trends.pdf">http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2003/results_merged/topic_inc_mor_trends.pdf</A>>, cancer mortality rates have been declining among those 64 and under in the US.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Doug</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">___________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; ">Michael McIntyre</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; "><A href="mailto:mcintyremichael@mac.com">mcintyremichael@mac.com</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;; font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14px; "><A href="http://morbidsymptoms.blogspot.com">http://morbidsymptoms.blogspot.com</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>