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I would be curious to see this alongside / with some relative derived metric for life expectancy. To my knowledge cancer can definitely be influenced by environ
by opportune 8y ago
I would be curious to see this alongside / with some relative derived metric for life expectancy. To my knowledge cancer can definitely be influenced by environmental/lifestyle factors but its incidence would also be increased by the relative age of the people in an area. For example if everyone dies by 50/60 of alcoholism, addiction, diabetes, or work-related injuries the cancer incidence would be lower than expected even though the people there are definitely unhealthier than the general populace
Actually, I see that the stat is age adjusted. So not sure what effect that would have on the comparison that I described