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Re:I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer by m12k on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:30AM (#30598135)
The way I think about cancer: Each and every one of us is playing Russian roulette daily with a revolver with a giant drum with tens of thousands of empty slots and a single bullet. And some people load more bullets in the drum by smoking, drinking, getting sunburned, other risky behavior or just losing the genetic lottery.

At the end of the day, the outcome is still random. You'll still come across chain smokers that live to be 100 and people like Seema in the post, who get cancer despite doing everything "right". It doesn't seem fair - because it isn't, it's random. The best we can do is change the odds, not guarantee the outcome.

Re:I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer by Turfie on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @07:00AM (#30598973)
It's never random. All is just a process of causes and conditions, albeit a very complex one. We just can't track all the variables.
Re:I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer by thombat on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @07:25AM (#30599130)
At the root of medicine is biochemistry, and at the root of chemistry is quantum physics: the formation and breaking of chemical bonds is at core random events shaped by probabilities. We can only say how likely events are, not which ones will happen when.
Re:I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer by thisismyswamp on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:14AM (#30641692)
Or rather even if it is deterministic, it might as well be random to us.
Re:I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer by throwaway22032 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:22AM (#30599571)
Sure, in the same sense that a roulette table or a deck of shuffled cards isn't actually random, it's just cause and effect.
Re:I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer by paraschopra on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:31AM (#30599644)
It's random for all practical purposes if you can't figure out the causes.