I started to say that I disagreed with you, but it's really that I think

you are not consistent.

"So I would guess that cancers occur at about the same rate they always have"

5) The damaging force that nails the DNA can be, for example, radiation, chemicals, or even a virus (which has the capability to monkey with DNA). Or, in a few cases the DNA itself can be awry from the get-go

To the extent that cancer has an inherited cause I agree the rate attributed to those cancers has not increased. Our genome has not changed in 100 years. What has changed, in some places drastically, is the environment in which we live. Most of the things you mention in 5 are much more prevalent today. 100 years ago nobody died of cancer caused by exposure to Benzene, agent orange, asbestos, etc. Nobody died from cancer after watching an atom bomb go off in the desert. Those are new, 20th century phenomena. The cancer rate from these causes has gone from 0 to something, an increase.

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