Quote (cloudkicker @ Jul 18 2014 02:24pm)
who says cancer is more prevalent now? maybe were just getting better at detecting neoplasms that were always occurring? doesnt help that our average age is a lot higher than it used to be, as you age your chances of developing deleterious dna mutations increases no matter what (telomerase expression decreasing with age)
also acute untreatable cancers that occur in youth are rare, cancer diagnosis is likely most frequent in middle-old age, once people have had their kids anyway. skin and pediatric cases aside those predisposed genes are likely to be passed on anyway
In your first paragraph u said what I said in the op..
And who says it? Lots of people do. But of course it'd be hard to prove since we do detect it more now.
Don't see why people are getting all weird about this thread such as..
Quote (Bubbler @ Jul 18 2014 03:36pm)
Did a little reading/10
Don't embarrass yourself by trying to sum up something people devote literally their whole lives to.
If you want to learn about cancer, truly, google the hallmarks of cancer paper and its update and work from there.
This post didn't go very well with topic. I didn't sum it up based on what I know, just uk cancer research is all.
This post was edited by tommyd323 on Jul 18 2014 07:06pm