CANCER 2024
Over the last century, much has been done to prevent some cancers and to detect many malignancies before they have metastasized. Most lung cancer deaths “are caused by smoking cigarettes or second hand smoke,” I n 1964, 42% of Americans were hooked on tobacco. Then the surgeon general officially told us that smoking cigarettes increases the risk of developing lung and laryngeal cancer and people listened. "T he percentage of Americans who smoked dropped from 42% in 1964 (the peak year for smoking) to 18% in 2014”. I n 2020 cancer of the liver was still the third most common cause of cancer mortality in the world, and the livers of the majority of those affected were chronically infected by the hepatitis B or C virus--- When a woman giving birth has active chronic hepatitis B she often exposes her newborn to the virus. The infection -- the disease--however--can usually be prevented ...