When idiots talk about increasing rates of cancer, they fail to mention it's because cancer gets more common with age and we are now LIVING LONGER Can't die from cancer if you died from polio at 10!https://twitter.com/MGigger/status/936004561659052033 …
While childhood cancer makes up a tiny fraction of total cancer rates, the small increase in incidence in the last 30-odd years isn't well understood It's probably related to a wide range of environmental exposures, but pinning down which one is hard
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Of course, the enormous drop in childhood mortality over the same period has also likely driven cancer up as a cause of death. It is somewhat rare for kids to die of infectious disease these days
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