[extropy-chat] `Cold virus kills skin cancer'

Adrian Tymes wingcat at pacbell.net
Sun Jan 11 21:28:36 UTC 2004


--- Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <gpmap at runbox.com> wrote:
> Perhaps one of the causes of the rise of cancer
> cases in the second half of
> the 20th century is that the progress of medicine
> has made the work of
> cancer killing viruses more difficult.

Eh?  That doesn't seem to make sense, unless you're
saying progress in medical tech is, itself, impeding
the treatment of cancer.

Perhaps better: the progress of medicine has meant
more
people live long enough to die of cancer, rather than
of things which would kill them before cancer could
arise.



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