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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/cont

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.