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To: Krowbar who wrote (70158)1/2/2000 4:23:00 PM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Christine, I would argue that our ancestors didn't get cancer because they didn't live long enough.

Interestingly, that's what the internist told my mother about her mother following the autopsy. He said that nearly every elderly person autopsied had cancer. Usually, the cancer's growth is slow as the person's entire system has slowed, and the person dies of something else.

Unfortunately, this was not the case with my mother, but it does seem to hold true as a generality.



To: Krowbar who wrote (70158)1/3/2000 1:12:00 AM
From: Grainne  Respond to of 108807
 
I would agree that cancer is mostly an aging disease, Del. I would disagree, however, about pesticides being okay on any level. I think the planet should support only the numbers it can feed using the most sophisticated organic farming methods. Pesticides do not only cause cancer; they wreck havoc with the environment as a whole, poisoning fish, ground water, the earth, upsetting the food chain, etc.

I am too tired to have a scientific discussion at the moment, however.


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