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Comment by alexpadula

4 days ago

Why “when you get” instead of “if you get”. Title assumes we all end up with cancer.

39.2% (!!!) of people get diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives

  • Because cancer is "just" some error in what a cell does, and the detection didn't work. Giving enough time everything will have cancer. It's simply memory/hardware faults accumulating.

    • Also many treatments will hasten your death than the disease itself. There is another HN thread posted today: "Do dentists know what they're doing?", the comments are illuminating. Same goes for oncologists - money incentives play a major role.