[zdean]

The cancer rates in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc have skyrocketed in the past decades. Some believe it's tied to the relentless bombings:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/14/iraq.military

[MacsHeadroom]

Cancer screening has also skyrocketed and cancer is up in lots of places without active conflict.

I don't mean to minimize the actual destructive effects of war. But the evidence for cancer as being among them is far from conclusive.

[zdean]

Cancer screening skyrocketing doesn't account for a skyrocketing rate of cancer...it would simply capture more of the absolute number.