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Incorrect, the rates are rising among young people: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/well/live/colon-and-rectal-cancers-rising-in-young-people.html https://ww

• Broken_Hippo 10y ago
  I do stand corrected on colon cancer. However, I stand by my general stance. Many cancers simply wouldn't show up in a population with a much shorter life expectancy. I'm not about to say it isn't partially environment or lifestyle (other things do cause cancer), just that we notice because of our life span and ability to detect these. I get this from articles like the one listed at the end, which states: The main reason cancer risk overall is rising is because of our increasing lifespan. And the researchers behind these new statistics reckon that about two-thirds of the increase is due to longevity. Colon cancer seems to be an outlier, and there are a couple of these. Cervical cancer is caused by a very common virus and often affects younger women, just to give another example. http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2015/02/04/why-are-cancer-rates-increasing/ http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2015/02/04/why-are-c...