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  • No questions regarding the populational risks as the small percentages would shine with the big numbers.

    WHO's recommendations remain the same for decades indeed: lower processed and red meat, eat chicken and fiber.

    What's your point exactly?

  • Like I said, it may be a scientifically interesting study, but the broader audience can't take anything from it but anxiety.

    a diet that reduces your chance of cancer by 20 or 30%, say.

    That would be significant, but probably not today. The lifetime risk of dying as a pedestrian in a car accident is around 1 in 100, so mitigating other risks is not an option for now

  • Like... is it written to excite anxiety?

    Getting a colorectal cancer probability in a lifetime is about 0.04, eating hotdog adds 8% to it or ~0.003. I like how precisely we can measure it using regular statistics, but what does it tell to a human being? To me it tells nothing about hotdogs

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    vivalapivo @lemmy.today

    How do you treat cancer in the US? Asking out of curiosity but I want serious answers.

    I am not from the US. Had my close relative fight with cancer. If not for the government which sponsored it almost fully, excluding a couple of procedures like PET, it would cost our family a lot. Just for the scale: pial for one infusion of one out of three drugs would cost us $8k and my relative would've needed 16 infusions.