RE: Are most cancers caused by pollution?

[Charlie Bell]

>
> 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

Consumption is/was tuberculosis, at least in the english usage...

Charlie