Is there more cancer today than there was a hundred years ago, or does it just seem that way due to the fact that improvements in science have made better diagnosis possible? One does not read about people in history dying from cancerous diseases, yet they seem to have become more and more common in the news today. Does that mean that there were none back then? I do not think so, since deaths due to cancer may not have been diagnosed as such due to the lack of knowledge, but were written about under a different lable. Today, we are simply more aware of something that has been around for a long time because we now know what it is. It would be interesting to find out what our ancestors called the various cancers, and what they tried to do about them. Perhaps in studying the past, a cure may be found that can be used in the future.
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