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▲ alexpadula 2 hours ago

Why “when you get” instead of “if you get”. Title assumes we all end up with cancer.

▲linolevan 2 hours ago | parent [-]

39.2% (!!!) of people get diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives

▲1718627440 an hour ago | parent [-]

Because cancer is "just" some error in what a cell does, and the detection didn't work. Giving enough time everything will have cancer. It's simply memory/hardware faults accumulating.