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Your right. I shouldn't have said "exclusive". I shouldn't be posting when I'm sick. Mea culpa. Instead, what I should have said is, cancer rates are significa
by SoftwareMaven 14y ago
Your right. I shouldn't have said "exclusive". I shouldn't be posting when I'm sick. Mea culpa.
Instead, what I should have said is, cancer rates are significantly higher in "western" countries and certain kinds of cancers have seen dramatic increases, such as breast cancer[1] and prostate cancer[2], as countries have "westernized". As countries westernize, rates of these cancers increase.
1. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/global-rise-in-breast-cancer-due-to-western-lifestyles-773162.html http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...
2. http://www.healthandenvironment.org/prostate_cancer/peer_reviewed http://www.healthandenvironment.org/prostate_cancer/peer_rev...
- Domenic_S 14y agoOr perhaps western medicine is better at detecting those diseases.
- rdl 14y agoJapan is basically Eastern genetics with Eastern diet and Western medicine, right? And a few very "Western" cultural trends (lots of work/high stress, smoking, etc.). (The irony is that smoking is more on the rise in Asia/etc. than elsewhere, so at some point smoking and related illness will be a non-Western thing, too.)