It's not controversial to say that cancer is a disease of old age, and that rates of cancer are higher now because people are living longer.
That makes a lot more sense than a lot of the nutrition bullshit that gets posted to HN.
That makes a lot more sense than a lot of the nutrition bullshit that gets posted to HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8827382
Yes, the absolute number of cancer cases experienced by an individual over the course of life will increase if the individual lives longer by surviving other causes of death, as cancer is mostly a disease that takes a long time to develop. But at a given age, individuals in the developed world are at less risk than ever before to have a case of cancer, and cancer cases are less likely to have fatal outcomes than ever before.