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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by gargoiler00 on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:10AM (#6232063)
Also what about the sudden population explosion? What if the survivors need after care for the rest of their lives, or expensive drugs?
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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by anovikov on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:20AM (#6232168)
Leukemia doesn't affect many enough people in reproductive age to cause a population explosion. Basically, no medical advance can cause population explosion in the rich world: there are very few people dying from disease in reproductive ages there. Making people who would otherwise die at 55 live through 95 does not make a population explosion because they won't have any kids anyways.
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Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer? by Mvandenbergh on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:16AM (#6232162)
What sudden population explosion? I'm fairly sure that leukemia isn't playing a huge role in demographics.
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