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JumpCrisscross•about 3 hours ago
How much of this is due to better survival from other causes of mortality?
andsoitis•about 3 hours ago
Original source, non-paywalled: https://www.who.int/news/item/08-07-2026-who-calls-for-urgen...
fithisux•about 2 hours ago
The previous years it was declining. Now it is soaring? Something does not add up here.Also, how do they know the future?
ButlerianJihad•about 3 hours ago
Every medical provider I've ever visited has been pounding my metaphorical ass since 4 years ago (like it literally started at midnight on my exact 50th birthday) to remind me that my colonoscopy is due to go spelunking for polyps and "prevent cancer" for some reason.

Guys, I have enough real problems to worry about, without anyone inventing new ones or going on a fishing expedition. I get really sick of these "mandatory screenings".

Here, have an SNL skit starring Woody Harrelson: https://youtu.be/Mu12X2cu6Y0?si=SEeqEEbwXnTckOUQ

reverius42•about 1 hour ago
You might regret this if you ever get colon cancer.
ButlerianJihad•about 1 hour ago
Who cares?

If I evade screenings for the rest of my life, I'll never be diagnosed! So I'll never find out! That's a good strategy, isn't it?

As I just finished writing, I have real actual health issues that I'm dealing with and I'm closely working with my invisible PCP to treat those issues (as in "Trick or Treat" on Hallowe'en.)

I see no need to go looking for problems I don't already have, and problems that won't materially affect my life until it's too late anyway.

If someone did discover cancer in me, what would we do? How would things change? Nothing at all. I would do nothing. I'm not gonna die of chemotherapy.

reverius42•about 1 hour ago
If you discover a precancerous polyp, and it gets removed during the colonoscopy, you just might avoid ever getting colon cancer instead of dying from it prematurely. But you do you.