[lr1970]

> Conclusion: this is not your risk of dying, but the increase of your risk of dying.

No, it does not increase your risk of dying. Your risk of dying was 100% before the procedure and is 100% after it. We all die at the end with certainty. Risk of dying is only meaningful when you qualify it with a timeframe (let say next 5 years) or cause (let say getting terminal cancer).

[kelnos]

Um, yes, the entire point of that section of the article was to talk about the increase of risk of death by cancer.