• Question: is cancer a new disease

    Asked by pugzie 456 to Kate on 15 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Kate Elliott

      Kate Elliott answered on 15 Nov 2016:

      No, cancer has been around for a very long time. It’s a disease which is more likely to affect older people though, so we see more of it nowadays because we live longer because we’ve got better at curing other diseases.

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