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Yes, this is what I'm referring to. This information is completly meaningless to me. How does a 1.5 to 3 times higher cancer risk affect my mortality? A 100 t
by 1ris 10y ago
Yes, this is what I'm referring to. This information is completly meaningless to me. How does a 1.5 to 3 times higher cancer risk affect my mortality?
A 100 times elevated risk in extreme uncommon diseases is absoluty irrelevant, but a 10 percent increase to get something very common is quite important. Likewise is the age when these disease typically break out. If it's typically not before 85, I wouldn't mind. If it's often before 40, I would dearly.
I know that alcohol increases the risk for prostate cancer. But prostate cancer typically starts at very high age and is usually just a minor hassle. The typical infected person dies of something else and has a usual life expectancy.
How to these factors from 1.5 to 3 affect my mortality? Should I care? I want to say something like say "I'm drinking $n drinks a week, and in order to compensate that I stop doing other things with a similar risk".
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- ekianjo 10y agoCancer is not uncommon, 1 person out of 3 gets it if they live long enough.
- vonmoltke 10y ago"Cancer" is not a single disease that can be lumped together like this. It is a large group of different diseases that share a similar mechanism (cell mutation and unchecked growth). Without information about what specific cancers are involved, it may be as the GP said: an elevated risk of a rare cancer.
- ekianjo 10y agoAlright, how about that then ? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172907/table/tbl2/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172907/table/tb...
- conception 10y agoIt's sorta hard to say because most of your risk just depends on your genetics. You could be in a happy genetic lottery of 1 : 1,000,000,000 of getting cancer before 50 or you could have terrible genes and be in the 1:100,000 lotto of getting cancer before your 50. If you drink in excess, you're buying three tickets for whichever lotto your in instead of the single ticket you get when you're born. And you collect these tickets all through your life - flying in airplanes a lot, staying in the sun a lot, smoking, etc. You just never know which lotto you're in so it's hard to say, with today's technology, how it will affect you. That's why some people smoke till their 90 without a problem and others get lung cancer much younger. Different lottos.