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by brnaftr361 1107 days ago
I like to think of it on the cell basis. All you need is to nick off a tumor suppressor gene and you're much closer to a cancerous cell. That tends to be how cancer proliferates, right? One bad cell and then a tumor, metastasis - cancer.

If you consider it on a particle scale, there's 4.5x(10^23) particles/mL. That's about 15 particles per cell per mL, and there's 3^13 cells in the body. Some of which are protected, others susceptible.

I'd take a risk, just not one for funky tasting sweets. Of course I don't do it for regular sweets, either, which possess their own dangers.