Cancers From 250 Million Years Ago

Could there be a very ancient cause behind a cancer spike in China?

John Welford
4 min readOct 28, 2021
“rain/forest” by Michael Cory is licensed under CC BY 2.0

There is evidence to suggest that people in a particular part of China are dying today from cancers that owe their origin to something that happened 250 million years ago.

It is generally accepted today that a mass extinction of species — notably but not exclusively…

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John Welford

I am a retired librarian, living in a village in Leicestershire. I write fiction and poetry, plus articles on literature, history, and much more besides.