We're ALL going to die from cancer

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Not all of us.


Some of us plan on going out from cirrhosis.

Microwaves.

Not scientifically, of course. They've always seemed a little questionable to me, though, based on no real information.

But yeah, I think grocery store food could potentially have something to do with it.

If you live long enough, cancer will eventually get you so...

all of my dogs have died of cancer, something is in the water causing it for sure..don't give your pets tap water breh

I'll take heart attack for 1000

So what? You're still going to live longer than previous generations. And something has to get you- cancer, stroke, diabetes, liver failure, Obama death panels! Live all you can now and you won't care anyway.

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my brother keeps ranting about the younger generation dying from cancer

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And he probably smokes crack.

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So what? You're still going to live longer than previous generations. And something has to get you- cancer, stroke, diabetes, liver failure, Obama death panels! Live all you can now and you won't care anyway.

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A common misconception about life expectancy is that we are living longer than previous generations, we are not, the average is increased because fewer people are dying early in their life. We have decreased infant mortality, and created prevention and treatment measures for 5 or 6 major diseases that at the turn of the century were pretty much fatal. In the late 1800s those that survived the first year of life and avoided contracting smallpox, polio, etc, had a good chance of living as long as they would today.

If cancer is a mutation of cells and evolution is just a series of random mutations, then shouldn't we be glad so many people are getting cancer as that means we're evolving? I mean surely sooner or later we'll find a form of cancer that's beneficial... right?