{"id":26167,"date":"2016-06-06T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T11:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26167"},"modified":"2016-06-06T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T11:06:02","slug":"how-cancer-was-created-by-the-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/06\/how-cancer-was-created-by-the-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"How cancer was created by the evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>BBC has a rather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/earth\/story\/20160601-is-cancer-inevitable\">lengthy article<\/a> on how cancer was created by the evolution. \u00a0The gist of it is not very cheerful:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But a more telling reason for the rise is that humans, on average, live a lot longer than they used to. &#8220;If you live long enough you will get cancer,&#8221; says Biankin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we decide that we all want to live to more than 70, then we have to accept that sooner or later we will get some sort of cancer,&#8221; says Bardelli. 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