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

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toasty228 · 1790687453 · focus · HN ↗
<a href="https://www.oatext.com/which-environment-makes-cancer.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.oatext.com/which-environment-makes-cancer.php
Always a good read, most cancers are environmental, and most of these are caused by obesity, bad diet and smoking/drinking, fix these four things in your life and you reduce your chances of getting cancer by 50%+
1. znpy · 1790693809 · focus · HN ↗
  for anybody else wondering: the environmental factors mentioned in the article (<a href="https://www.oatext.com/img/ORR-1-115-g001.gif" rel="nofollow">https://www.oatext.com/img/ORR-1-115-g001.gif) are:
  diet, tobacco, infections, obesity, alcohol, others

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