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Re:Cancer Is More Bad Luck Than Bad Behavior, Study Says by aswanson on Friday January 02, 2015 @11:33AM (#8827339)
Maybe it's just being properly diagnosed more often. In the 1800s, it was just called "consumption."
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Re:Cancer Is More Bad Luck Than Bad Behavior, Study Says by jobposter1234 on Friday January 02, 2015 @12:29PM (#8827581)
Consumption was actually tuberculosis.

"Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB (short for tubercle bacillus), in the past also called phthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, or consumption, is a widespread, and in many cases fatal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis.[1]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis

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