Dan, I know you like to check your facts. Age-adjusted rates of cancer have been going steadily down throughout our lifetimes. That information has been posted

Dan, I know you like to check your facts. Age-adjusted rates of cancer have been going steadily down throughout our lifetimes. That information has been posted to Hacker News before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8827382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8827382 Yes, the absolute number of cancer cases experienced by an individual over the course of life will increase if the individual lives longer by surviving other causes of death, as cancer is mostly a disease that takes a long time to develop. But at a given age, individuals in the developed world are at less risk than ever before to have a case of cancer, and cancer cases are less likely to have fatal outcomes than ever before.