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Actually, with cancer, you do have a lot of control over whether or not you get it based on lifestyle. Up to 90% of cancers are preventable. https://www.ncbi.n
by lazerpants 9y ago
Actually, with cancer, you do have a lot of control over whether or not you get it based on lifestyle. Up to 90% of cancers are preventable.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515569/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515569/
Edit: 90% sounded way too high, so I dug up a more recent article on this, which claims it is 50%.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/healthy-lifestyle-could-prevent-half-of-all-cancer-deaths/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/healthy-l...