In Victorian England (1840) if you made it to adulthood (20) your life expectancy was ~ 60. It's 82 today. The effects are not as dramatic as when infant mort

In Victorian England (1840) if you made it to adulthood (20) your life expectancy was ~ 60. It's 82 today. The effects are not as dramatic as when infant mortality is included but our life expectancy has absolutely increased. It's a compelling theory, too, because the average age of a cancer is 66 today. But it really addresses the idea of cancer being less prevalent than less likely.