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Sergio Stefanuto
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Location: UK
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| blade wrote: |
The study showed the disease rate has risen dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, in particular childhood cancer �
proving that the rise is not simply due to people living longer. |
Unhealthy diets, lack of exercise and pollution (coal smog > lung cancer) definitely cause cancer. However, if people didn't live until 80 and 90 and began dying at 40 and 50 once again, cancer incidence would plunge.
| Blade wrote: |
| Maybe the hippies were right after all? |
Nope, that's Oirish logic, mate |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:19 am Post subject: |
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it also neglects to say that our bodies were not designed to last as long as they do (cateracts etc.)- so yes, maybe cancer is man made but only because healthier living/modern medicine is keeping us alive longer.
what a load of trip that article is... |
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Hindsight
Joined: 02 Feb 2009
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December 27, 2010
Unearthing Prehistoric Tumors, and Debate
By GEORGE JOHNSON
When they excavated a Scythian burial mound in the Russian region of Tuva about 10 years ago, archaeologists literally struck gold. Crouched on the floor of a dark inner chamber were two skeletons, a man and a woman, surrounded by royal garb from 27 centuries ago: headdresses and capes adorned with gold horses, panthers and other sacred beasts.
But for paleopathologists � scholars of ancient disease � the richest treasure was the abundance of tumors that had riddled almost every bone of the man�s body. The diagnosis: the oldest known case of metastasizing prostate cancer.
The prostate itself had disintegrated long ago. But malignant cells from the gland had migrated according to a familiar pattern and left identifiable scars. Proteins extracted from the bone tested positive for PSA, prostate specific antigen. |
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/health/28cancer.html?hpw=&pagewanted=all
Gee, I wonder how that coulda happened? |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| A flu killed them off faster than cancer in those days. |
yea that's true. The life expectancy was what? 30-35 years at the time of the Pharaohs? Cancer wouldn't have time to start by that age. |
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