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> Cancer has risen dramatically recently

Has it? All I can find is

http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/cance...

and

http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/all.html

The first says it's basically holding for everyone but the very old who weren't well represented 100 years ago, and the second seems to show a slight decline in the past ~20 or so years with a peak in 1975 and holding almost steady after that. Basically what you would expect with improved diagnosis.



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