min maxing cancer

[thebenedictine]

using the breast cancer risk calculator at http://www.cancer.gov/bcrisktool/Read more... )

Comments

[chrsjxn]

That's... just a little bit creepy.

And now I'm somewhat morbidly curious if they have calculators for other types of cancer...

[thebenedictine]

i don't know, but i will make one just for you!

lung cancer
do you smoke?
yes -> a billion
no -> not a billion

colon cancer
do you eat carcinogens?
yes -> a billion
no -> how do you know?

prostate cancer
flip a coin
heads -> a billion
tails -> not a billion

[rjmccall]

I'm pretty sure prostate cancer is more like

flip a coin
heads -> yes
tails -> yes

and then it's just a question of whether it'll kill you in five years or two hundred.

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[chrsjxn]

I might like her odds better.

[betaphen]

flip a rock
rock -> a billion
rock -> a trillion

[redglasses]

rock -> |,,|