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Summary of audience discussion: We do not know when the high 

 incidence of cancer began. We know the frequency was low in 

 antiquity — at least in South America's Acacama desert where 

 climatic conditions provide such good soft tissue preservation that it 

 is difficult to overlook cancers that now occur commonly in such 

 areas as the breast and where study material up to 8000 years old and 

 as recent as 500 years ago is available. Unfortunately good records 

 of cancer during the historic period have only been kept during the 

 past century. The high frequency of lung cancer in Hungary might 

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