Cancer ‘did not cause dinosaur extinction’

September 26, 2007

Dinosaur skellingtonCancer is often regarded as a disease of modern living, caused by our high-fat, low-exercise lifestyle, too much boozing and smoking, or sinister ‘things in the environment’.

But while it’s true that our sedentary lifestyles and bad diets have changed the rates of certain types of cancer (notably lung or bowel cancer), the disease is actually as old as life itself.

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