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Originally Posted by Swampbird
Tyger, where did you read that 1/3 of cancer is preventable? I was never sick a day in my life and got physicals and mammos every year until diagnosed at 44 with cancer ("clean" mammos for 4 years were false negatives).
My uncle died of colon cancer at 46. He was never sick a day in his life, excersised daily and ate plenty of fiber, etc. We had no family history.
You can't "prevent" cancer. You can try to "reduce risk", but I think that is BS when it comes to cancer. However, heart disease and diabetes are another story.
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Giving a couple of examples proves nothing, except that there are exceptions, and the ones you cited are not really exceptions anyway, as they fall within the 2/3 of cancer that Tyger said is not preventable. Therefore, why do you think they refute what he said? Whether you think it is BS about reducing one's risk for cancer is irrelevant because you are obviously not a medical epidemiologist. You cite two examples; the medical researchers cite millions in careful studies which are designed to correct for various kinds of things which could throw the results off. There are indeed risk factors for some cancers; it is a proven fact, whether you "think" so or not. One of the earliest to be proven beyond the shadow of a doubt is that smoking is a risk factor for lung cancer. Your reasoning is flawed in the most fundamental way - you are looking at your own family and drawing conclusions from what you see. The amount of data you are looking at is way too small to draw any conclusions whatsoever.
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