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> age of cancer Well that's just all of time.
by afterburner 6y ago
> age of cancer
Well that's just all of time.
- colordrops 6y agoAre you certain cancer rates haven't gone up with industrialization?
- sosborn 6y agoTo be fair, cancer survival rates have definitely gone up with industrialization.
- devaler 6y agoPlease define “survival”.
- CydeWeys 6y agoPeople with cancer survive for many more years now than even a few decades ago, let alone centuries ago. It depends a lot on the type of cancer but for some of them the prognosis now is literally several decades more lifetime on average than it was centuries ago.
- jaclaz 6y agoAnd are you certain that increasing cancer rates are (generally speaking) unaffected by (much) longer lifetimes and (much) better diagnosing/imaging means? I mean, when on average people died at forty or fifty, with all the exceptions for the early age cases, and there were no real means to either diagnose cancer or even making autopsies, documented cases must have been sensibly less.
- afterburner 6y agoDunno why you're being downvoted but it's definitely what I was getting at.
- jaclaz 6y agoI don't know either, it was only a raised (IMHO legitimate) doubt. When we talk of the past we should do more complete analyisis than simply applying our current metrics.
- Balgair 6y agoThey certainly went up after 11:29am UTC July 16th 1945.
- neonate 6y agoThat's kind of his point I think.