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Letter: Cancer cause?

Published 22 January 2014

From Steve Dalton

I was fascinated by the idea that a fever might help defeat cancer (4 January, p 26). Could the incidence of cancer in the 20th century be, in part, a result of fewer fever-inducing pathogens in our environment and the greater availability and use of fever-suppressing drugs?
Chipstead, Kent, UK

Issue no. 2953 published 25 January 2014

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