‹ BackHN Continuity

Thread

1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds

296 points · 158 comments · colinprince

  1. samso26 · · focus · HN ↗
    The striking part is that many infection-linked cancers already have prevention or treatment options,but access and uptake are uneven. That makes this partly a delivery problem: vaccines, screening,and treatment only reduce cancer burden when people can actually get them. i’d be interested to see the estimates broken down by how much could be prevented with tools we already have versus infections where theres still no effective intervention.
    1. neom · · focus · HN ↗
      Almost all your comments are flagged. Get yer clanker off HN buddy.
      1. Pannoniae · · focus · HN ↗
        FYI the prev comment is also clanker stuff, it's just purposefully prompted to inject grammatical errors. It's obvious from the word choice and the sentence structure, it's very stilted in an inhuman way. The wrong commas aren't a common error (unless you're 70+ yo) but LLMs keep doing "word ,another" and "word,another" to appear quirky

        esp when all the caps are missing but all the punctuation are perfectly present

    2. mh- · · focus · HN ↗
      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pangram.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;99f796d0-fa5b-4e0c-992b-3e614894c4ab?ucc=v0WYMhMlUiN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pangram.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;99f796d0-fa5b-4e0c-992b-3e61...
Open on Hacker News to reply ↗

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.