ANSWERS: 5
  • Too many man-made chemicals in our daily environment, in my opinion.
  • Very simply, cancer is usually an old age disease. Two hundred years ago, people rarely lived long enough to get it. Life expectancy was mid-forties to fifty in the early 1800's. That is not to say that some people didn't live longer, but many died younger as well. A large percentage of people didn't survive toddlerhood. Go walk through the old part of a cemetary and look at birth and death dates. It is quite illuminating. Now, since most cancers appear in the forty and upward age group, there weren't many people alive in that age range, so very few people got cancer in that time frame. Modern medicine, with antibiotics and vaccines, has made it very rare that people die in childhood. Pnuemonia is no longer the number one cause of death. If we get that sick, we just take antibiotics. Death in childbirth is no longer common. Most of us live well past forty. In those many long years that we live now, cells are replicated and replaced over and over. Every time a cell is copied, the chances of a mistake become greater. Those mistakes are the beginning of cancer. Our immune systems also get weaker as we age, making it less likely that it will be able to recognize and remove those "mistake" copies. Therefore, as we age, we become more likely to get cancer. That said, I do think there are some factors that are increasing cancers in children and young adults. One of the factors, I believe, is birth control pills. Particularly the early birth control pills, which were taken by the women who are now in their fifties, which were very high estrogen. I highly suspect nuclear power plants too. http://radiation.org/
  • Im sure radiation has something to do with it. But keep in mind our society is superficial. Women spend hours in the sun just to tan, or they go to salons designed to give them solar radiation. It is really so unexpected breast cancer affects so many? Then you have the pollutants in our air, water, chemicals in our foods. Etc. None of that existed 2 or 3 centuries ago.
  • there was plenty of cancer its just that we got the technology to discover it now, but there is more cancer nowadays because our governments dont give a fuck about us, and let us smoke, we have high pollution, radiation, and our lifestyles are very fast food and un-healthy
  • We are living longer and have to die of something. 200 years ago, people much younger were dying from other reasons. If they had lived long enough, maybe cancer would have surfaced as a common killer.

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