The medical staff is in the trenches trying to win the cancer war among other dangerous and chronic diseases.

Does anyone know? It seems no one is going to give even an opinion on what is causing periodic high rates of cancer around any nation.

I think you are right if you suspect (chemicals) our industrialized economy that has been so praised in media for well over a century. The glorious praise stories have little to say about what kinds of chemicals (pollutions) are spewed out 24/7/365.

I think it’s more about what we don’t choose to know about what is right in front of us. Example: The agri-businesses in the US have very little to say in places like anywhere midwest where much corn, soybeans, and wheat crops are grown because it’s a real cash cow. (I wonder if there is any corn in my coffee? :-)) Nobody thinks about all the tons of concoctions making high farm yields possible, because that’s all that matters. Yeah, the economy, that’s all. Shit goes downstream, yeah, no Mensa thinking needed to figure that, but it still goes unseen even though everybody knows!

Here’s a thought, do citizens have any idea how much shit is randomly dumped all over the place to keep our consumption game going? Can we even eat fish in many of our rivers and lakes without ingesting whatever they are eating?

The US has done much to change bad habits like DDT, lead pipe/paint, aerosols, acid rains, and other innumerable overused chemical stews being regulated out. (So many it’s hard to Roundup all of them, Umm, wait a sec, I need to spray Febreze all over the place and I really haven’t a clue why)

What remains is what we fail to see, just like our noses. Ever wonder why when a gas* station closes for good, usually nobody develops that land for decades into something possibly useful? Usually, the pollution laws are designed for downstream collateral damages, yeah, no one wants to touch that land due to the cost of removing the polluted soil beneath the old fuel distro site(s). I guess somehow the right inspectors need buying, along with some legal bull shit adjustments, which can take some time. I mean that’s the American way?

The point is why ask the medical people what cancer is all about, think of the medical-industrial complex personnel as if they are a MASH unit endlessly treating citizens afflicted by our own habitual behaviors.

IMO, the large share of cancers are due to our overstimulated consumption economy, not all, but much of the cancers. We choose not to look at huge potential causes. So no one, medical or otherwise tends to diss the economy, it's like everybody else's problem.

* Oh, almost forgot, the fossil fuel industry, now I wonder if that is a problem for anyone in this world? Hmm, I'll just have to think about that. ... .