How come a heck of alot of people now get cancer?!

I read an article that said that deodorants have a lot of chemicals even some lotions and make up and that's why actors get it more often because of the exposures to all these items. That's why a lot of people is going organic.

Actually, the quality of the environment is what is aggravating it; it is called oxidants that is found in contaminated air and water and food that we eat.

Cancer has been with humanity for centuries but are only diagnosed as cancer because of progress in medicine since the 1900s. Before that, doctors would cite organ failure or any other form of causes of death.

Going back to oxidants, it causes cellular disruptions or make cells go crazy. And these regenerate very fast to the point that our immune system cannot cope. And cancer cells which are vulnerable to our immune system find a common friend willing to combat the immune system, the cancer cells got the chance to propagate and affect, first, tissues (those that are found in biopsy samples), and later on grow large in numbers enough to attack entire organs (lungs, liver, colon, breast, etc.).

Read a lot of medical and health books. Eldest son is a doctor.

So many people make this overly complicated.
One picture may make this clear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cancer…
Since the early 1900's, the increase in lung cancer had followed in lock step 20 years behind the increase in cigarette smoking with modern cigarette manufacturing machines.
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31% of cancer deaths in the USA are lung cancer deaths caused ~ 90% of cases caused by decades of cigarette/nicotine addiction. Tobacco also cause many deaths from cancers of the mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, stomach, bladder and the carcinogens in cigarette smoke are also likely to cause cancers of the pancreas and others.
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But even more obvious is the change in human survival since the early 1900s.
In 1906 the avergae survaviak from birth in the USA was 47 years.
The vast majority of cancer deaths occur in people over 60 years of age.
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Nuclear weapons testing may be the speck in our eye, but cigarette smoking is the plank in our eyes that no one seems to notice or no one wants to notice. Nuclear weapons testing may cause a few malignancies here and there while cigarettes are the elephant in the room. Ipve sen hundreds of people die with advanced lung cancers. They and their family members - being normal humans - would usually look for someone or something to blame. The would often bring up newer chemicals in the environment or nuclear weapons testing or something they were exposed to at work - hence a possible lawsuit against an employer. When I pointed out the 40 or 50 years of smoking one or two packs of cigarettes a day - an average of over half a million cigarettes smoked - patients and family members did not want to hear that or believe it. After awhile I stopped pointing out the obvious to people who already had end stage cancer which hey often brought upon themselves by their smoking. Doctors cannot often cure end stage smoking related cancers of any type. I probably save more lives talking about the risks of smoking to the college students in my world history classes.
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To sum up - as you ask - the MAJORITY of malignancies in the past 65 years since nuclear testing began have NOT been caused by radiation. Look to cigarette smoking and a life span of ~ 80 years these days in developed countries. Cancers are mostly found in older people. 100 years ago people often did not live long enough to develop malignancies. The average person with lung cancer is 70 years of age. Only 3% of lung cancers occur in people under age 45. The vast majority of breast cancers, colon cancers, and prostate cancers occur in people over age 60.

MD hematologist and medical oncologist - cancer and leukemia specialist physician for 20 years

You are wrong.
Cancer hasn't increased, with the exception of skin cancer and that has more to do with sun exposure than nuclear weapons.

1. People are living longer, so old people who would have been dead in the 60's are now getting cancer.
2. Doctors are better at detecting cancer, so more people are being diagnosed. This includes people who would have died of unknown or "natural" causes who could have died from cancer or had undetected cancer that was not related to their death.

Maybe something to do with diet?
Theres alot more available to us now that isn't good for us.
Before industrialisatian, people ate whole, unprocessed foods. Now everything comes in a million wrappers with a zillion unnatural additives and preservatives.

At the same time as nuclear development, people developed antibiotics. There are also inoculations, treatments for heart and lung disease, stomach ulcers and anaemia. So people don't die of those things but live long enough to get cancer.

You are 100% Guaranteed to get cancer if you live long enough.

The earth is dying, doomsday is getting near.