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by paganel 2495 days ago
> Cancer rates are increasing due to people living longer and cancer being more common the older you are.

Then we should just compare cancer rates for people age 20-to-40 who live nowadays to cancer rates for people with the same age from, I don't know, 100 years ago? Or, better yet, compare this to people who don't live in an industrial society like ours.