At 10:29 PM 5/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>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
It's training the mice to wear hats in the first place that's hard . . .
-- Ronn! :)
