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

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.

	▲	dennis_jeeves2 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also many treatments will hasten your death than the disease itself. There is another HN thread posted today: "Do dentists know what they're doing?", the comments are illuminating. Same goes for oncologists - money incentives play a major role.