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by Retric 573 days ago
Nothing is 100% under your control.

But there’s a great number of things that increase risks of cancer to the point where you can be well below average cancer risks.

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Agreed, but if you do healthy habit X, Y, and Z, can you formulate and rely on those risks assessments? What was the risk of the person who smoked cigarettes all their lives yet didn't die of cancer? Should we calculate the risk score of a child with leukemia?

Cancer is scary, because there always looms the unknown causes. Heart disease, less scary, because people have much more control through healthy habits. Cancer, not as much.