On Tue, 15 May 2001, Kristin A. Ruhle wrote:
> Jeez. EVERYTHING causes cancer, It's a mircle not everyone gets it.
> (the big question should be not why does someone get cancer but
> someone else NOT get cancer?) Who gets "unlucky" probably has to do
> with genotype.
Some of the higher cancer rates we're seeing now have to do with people
surviving stuff that would have killed them a mere century ago. (At
least, I think that's what my mother's parents were saying, and both of
*them* were doctors, one of them in cancer research.) Cancer starts to
get you because you survived long enough to have it develop.
> *Should* every single compound in the world be tested on lab mice? Or
> people? We could hardly get rid of them all, could we, even if big
> money were not involved?!?
It depends on the lab mice, for one thing. I think there are strains
that'll get cancer practically at the drop of a hat.
Julia
