Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.

I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

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