Improved diagnostics and improvements in fighting other diseases will lead to higher (diagnosed) cancer rates.
If you live long enough, you will get cancer. Every time a cell copies its DNA, you roll the dice to see if it becomes cancerous. You can do things to bias the dice toward or away from cancer, but it's still always a roll of the dice. As the number of dice rolls approaches infinity, the probability of them coming up snake eyes at least once approaches certainty.
I understand your point, and I understand that cancer can and will pop up in safe environments.
However, that much radioactivity cannot be good. I understand that those were mostly detonated in safe environnements and in safe ways, but that is a lot of detonations right there. I'm not sure I can trust that all of those denotations released nothing bad in the atmosphere.
I would be curious to overlay a map of cancer rates over a map of detonations, taking wind into account.
Improved diagnostics and improvements in fighting other diseases will lead to higher (diagnosed) cancer rates.
If you live long enough, you will get cancer. Every time a cell copies its DNA, you roll the dice to see if it becomes cancerous. You can do things to bias the dice toward or away from cancer, but it's still always a roll of the dice. As the number of dice rolls approaches infinity, the probability of them coming up snake eyes at least once approaches certainty.