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0 pointspessimizer3y ago0 comments

This is nonsensical. Any number of things are failing to reduce cancer death rates, including professional football and jelly donuts. This study is about colonoscopies also failing to reduce cancer death rates.

Changing the title to Don't Worry About Colon Cancer Death Rates, Just Continue To Do What You're Told would not have been better or more accurate.

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eecc3y ago

> This is nonsensical.

Can you please keep it civil and avoid devolving into insults? I don't spend my time online to get treated like a fool. Now please restrain yourself from trolling even further and say "well, then don't say foolish things" because I'd flag you.

If you bothered reading the article, a paragraph reads that this particular form of screening did have an impact. Just not as significant as the community thought.

The study is about _one particular form of screening_ that might might have been oversold. Perfectly consistent with the parent observation and my own: screening is significant, curing cancer isn't as easy as avoiding it altogether.

Now, if you have something constructive to add please do so. Otherwise, please shut up and move on to some Reddit sub.

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