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Not quibbling with your general point, but was cancer a rare occurrence before WWI on a like-for-like basis? Life expectancy was a great deal lower then - it's
by frereubu 4y ago
Not quibbling with your general point, but was cancer a rare occurrence before WWI on a like-for-like basis? Life expectancy was a great deal lower then - it's gone up by around 30 years (from just over 50 to just over 80) since then.
- chiefalchemist 4y agoI would theorize that it was less detected prior to WW1, for obvious reasons. That aside, life expectancy, afaik, includes new born illnesses, childhood illness and so on, and then as adults there were occupational related deaths. Those brought down the average then. Did those who survived all those risks live as long as we do today? IDK. But there has to be data to figure that out, as the raw life expectancy then v now is likely misleading.