This is why I always say "the risk is approximately . . ." First of all, the numbers are based on sampling, on counting every record and report. Second, the values change over time as cancer follows a stochastic distribution.
BLHamrick@AOL.COM wrote:
In a message dated 3/11/2003 3:42:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu writes:
In absolutely every workplace in the US, one in four workers will
get cancer.
Actually, according to the NIH, one-half of all males, and one-third of all females will suffer some type of cancer within their lifetime:
http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/cancer/guide/understanding3.htm
Estimates of fatal cancers range from 20-25%, but the most reliable statistics I've seen indicate that (at least for the foreseable future - 5 to 10 years) the fatal cancer rate will be about 23%.
Barbara