Now that aids is treatable, and only poor people die from it, cancer has resumed its role as the health bugaboo of the rich world. The headlines shout daily about what does, or does not cause it, with the same things often appearing in both lists. Magazines are full of tales of celebrities who have had the disease-or rather, "battled" with it. And the science columns discourse learnedly on this or that new drug which might prove (though always five to ten years hence) a crucial breakthrough in the war against it.
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