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To: Gord Bolton who wrote (82157)	2/16/2002 11:33:51 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116796

It is not true that the 19th century had that much of a lower age of death on the average. Perhaps in England it was say an average death age of 65, but it was certainly not so much earlier that you would never notice people getting these types of cancers. Cancer was prevalant in the 19th century. Lung cancer from exposure to the more prevalent wood smoke stoves and coal burning furnaces was fairly common. Housewives got it as did the ancient Vikings, from working over smoking stoves. This applies today to smoky frying pans too. Broiling is much safer. Waht gives the lie to what you say, is the prevalence of Cancer of the breast as a means of death is actually statistically inferrable from even a much lower death age population. Even if most people died younger because of infant mortality, the people who made it to 50 had as good a chance of making it to 75 as they do today. This is a statistic you can look up if you want to. That means that whatever the numbers many did make it to 75. So what killed them? If Prostate cancer had the same causes then as now, then you would get an incidence of it amongst the population that would be significant. It would simply kill most of the older people and we would know about it from records as an old people's disease. It would be up there with heart and kidney disease. But it wasn't. It was rare. England knows what most of the people have died of since 1100 AD. On that Island it has been written down what the symptoms of disease death have been in just about every individual since that time. We can go back to records in the 14 century and accurate descriptions of symptoms are written down so that doctors today can tell what killed that person 700 years ago. The records are astoundingly complete. That is the actuality, no matter what you may think. So we know what diseases were around then. And we can exhume corpses and tell from their bones whether Cancer afflicted them. EC<:-}