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It's also important to realize there are dozens of different kinds of cancer even though they all share the same word.

What freaks me out is women have a 1 in 3 chance of getting cancer and men 1 in 2 :

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerBasics/lifetime-probabili...

People eventually die. If they don't die of cancer, they die of heart disease, or liver failure, or some other part of their body wearing out. So those stats don't freak me out... the relevant ones are how many people under 75 or so get a disease.

Heart disease is much easier to avoid through diet and exercise. Cancer not so much!

Yes, this freaks me out too, and makes the vast majority of humans insane for not taking care of their health... all the more reason to be vigilant, not complacent.

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