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Article: Cancer Risk Up Sharply In This Era; New Study Suggests Preventable Causes Are Still Unidentified
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- The Washington Post
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- February 9, 1994
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A white man of the baby-boom generation has about twice the risk
of developing cancer as his grandfather, and a white woman of the
same age has about 1 1/2 times the risk of her grandmother,
according to a new study.
Even when cancers caused by smoking are disregarded and the
aging of the population is taken into account, an upward trend of
malignant disease this century is still evident in both sexes,
researchers report in today's Journal of the American Medical
Association.
The findings "strongly suggest there are preventable causes {of
cancer} out there that remain to be identified," said Devra Lee
Davis, an epidemiologist at the Department of Health and Human
Services who headed the ...