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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. lucb1e · 1791160865 · focus · HN ↗
  Replacing the misnomer class .black-text{color:25% grey} with just {color:black} instantly makes that article so much more readable
  The image is blurred beyond readability, but via tineye.com I found what seems to be the original: <a href="https://cdn.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/blobs/4f68/2515569/99b99587b2e8/11095_2008_9661_Fig1_HTML.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/blobs/4f68/2515569/99b99587... It splits out what environmental factors cause cancer. Unsurprisingly, your chance is already 25% lower if you don't smoke, but the rest of the pie chart is also interesting

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