Yes but the death rates due to so many things that would have killed people before they had a chance to develop cancer have fallen so much. Some cancers can even be prevented with vaccines today that have killed thousands of women in the past. It's getting better, and has been for a long time.
Mark Roberts wrote: > P. J. Alling wrote: > >> I'm not sure what you mean by "more and more present", but really the >> reason this is such a tragedy is that is so unusual for a relatively >> young healthy woman to die prematurely. From the 1840's, when good >> record keeping became a general to about 1910 statistics show that young >> women were very vulnerable to typhus, cholera, child birth, small pox it >> was truly horrible, popular songs reflected just that, "Listen to the >> Mocking Bird", which was adopted by the 3 Stooges, actually find the >> words and read them. . There was a culture of death or rather dealing >> with death throughout the Victorian Age. If you go to any relatively >> old cemetery you should count the headstones of you woman who died in >> their late teens to early thirties. The numbers are sometimes >> astounding. We should mourn the loss of this young woman, but be very >> thankful it happens so much less frequently today. >> > > I think he means cancer, specifically, the rates for which are indeed > going up. > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
