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P(death|me) dominates P(death|population)! > After 60 your risk of death from cancer starts declining, because other causes dominates your risk of death from c
by stevesimmons 5y ago
P(death|me) dominates P(death|population)!
> After 60 your risk of death from cancer starts declining, because other causes dominates your risk of death from cancer. By 90 the cancer risk is less than 10%.
This may be true at a population level. But only because the "average" person smokes, drinks too much, doesn't get enough exercise, has a poor diet, is considerably overweight, is poor, has poor access to healthcare, and may have worked in a job with exposure to occupational hazards or stresses which damage their body.
If you, as an individual, have none of those, with no family history of early death from stroke or heart disease, then cancer will certainly dominate your risk of death.