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I've heard this statistic

In Reply to: Then what should we be eating? posted by Deep Dad Nine on September 09, 1999 at 11:19:29:

:My understanding is that 50% of all males that are alive today will die of cancer. Has anyone else heard this statistic? Is it true? Where does it come from

In school we were told that one out of every two men in america will get cancer, but many of them will die of other causes before the cancer does. Heart attack is the number one killer, then cancer. I've also heard somewhere else that the most common type of cancer in men is lung cancer (good news for those of us who don't smoke) and in females it's breast cancer.

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