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Originally Posted by peter12
I think 2/3 people on this forum will probably end up dying of cancer. It's not uncommon.
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2/3 is a bit high unless life expectancies dramatically increase (which is possible); right now it's about 30% and age-adjusted incidence rates are generally stable or decreasing for most cancers. Since cancer is strongly associated with age I can see it increasing above 30% in the medium-term but it would take major increases in life expectancy and reductions in other causes of death, combined with poor progress in treating cancer, to bring it close to 2/3.