My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2001, a few months after my mom had a hysterectomy for uterine cancer.  In 2007 at the age of 63, my dad was diagnosed with a second (unrelated) cancer–something horrible called lyposarcoma with a 15 pound tumor in his abdomen. He was given five years to live and made it 4 1/2. A month after my father died in 2011, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, her second (unrelated) cancer. She died in 2019 when it returned. How common was cancer in the past?  If cancer is more common now than before it could be because: 1)  we’ve polluted our environment 2)  we live longer than in the past, so we die from things we wouldn’t have had the chance to die from in the Middle Ages 3)  we’ve circumvented natural Read more…