Re: cancer rates (was: e: How do you calm down the hot-heads?)

From: Robbie Lindauer (robblin@thetip.org)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 10:35:54 MDT

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    On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 01:21 AM, Damien Broderick wrote:

    > Robert Weinberg, a notable cancer expert, sez not. (Except in
    > especially
    > nasty hot-spots.)

    Reference already provided:

    http://webapp.cdc.gov/

    The database is roughly searchable.

    It MAY be that cancer is more likely to happen because we're getting
    older, we KNOW that there are more polutants around. We KNOW that the
    pollutants cause cancer. We don't KNOW that age does. Although it
    seems tautological - if increased exposure to pollutants causes cancer,
    then the longer you are exposed to them, the more likely you are to get
    cancer, hence the older you are, the more likely you are, etc.

    While the conjecture is an important one, it doesn't make it more than
    a contributing factor - GIVEN that we KNOW that increased stress,
    pollutants, alcohol, tobacco, smog, heavy-metals, food-poisons, etc.
    are cancer-causing.

    Best,

    robbie

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