> > Julia
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
Mom once gave me a history lesson on this in the graveyard. One of the early
terms for cancer was "consumption", which opened up my eyes to it's
prevalence from when I was a young pup at the grey hair family reunions.
(That was the same day that I saw how many kids died before they were
teenagers until the year penecillin was distributed).
Dee
