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Is the developed world we've created giving us cancer?

  • Written by Chelsey Kivland, Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
imageScientists know that many toxins, such as those found in cigarettes, cause most lung cancers, whose cells are depicted here. But isolating causes for other cancers is an ongoing effort.Raj Creationzs/Shutterstock

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