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Could you give a source for that?

• ncmncm 5y ago
  What, that we are all exposed to BPAs, PFAs, and thousands of other poorly-understood industrial chemicals? That many nobody can avoid are known to be teratogenic at very low concentration?
  • joshuahedlund 5y ago
    I think parent comment is asking for a source for: > All kinds of tumors have exploded in recent decades
    • michaelmrose 5y ago
      Cancer certainly did explode. The number of people living into their 70s and 80s increased very substantially between 1960 and now. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/demo/p25-1145.pdf https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio... Cancer is what you die of if something else doesn't get you first.
      • ncmncm 5y ago
        That's one theory. But it is contradicted by facts, in detail. For example, a growing variety of cancers turn out to be induced by HPV, human papilloma virus. (The cancers were mostly there already, but we don't know they are caused by HPV without a lot of work.) Any cancer caused by HPV is one you will not get without exposure, regardless of your age.
  • Strilanc 5y ago
    I'm specifically interested in knowing which types of tumors have become more common, and exactly how much more common they've become.