On: Cancer Incidence by Country

[tiku]

Poland is an interesting case, why are they having much more cancer than the rest of Europe?

[tevlon → tiku]

Poland burns a lot of coal in the winter for heating, which results in poor air quality: https://www.reddit.com/r/AirQuality/comments/1b5os4w/what_is...

[xanderlewis → tiku]

Eating sausages?

Not trying to be offensive; I’m serious.

[ahoka → xanderlewis]

I don’t think that’s unique to Poland.

[xanderlewis → ahoka]

Of course not, but the average consumption seems to be higher. Particularly (relatively highly processed) dried and cured sausages which are supposedly associated with higher rates of certain kinds of cancers.

[ahoka → xanderlewis]

I think this is a very stereotypical and stupid theory.

The most common cancers are prostate or breast cancer in Poland:

https://journals.viamedica.pl/nowotwory_journal_of_oncology/....

[xanderlewis → ahoka]

Those are the most common everywhere, so it doesn’t explain the disparity.

Why is it stupid? Because it’s a stereotype? Do you know where stereotypes come from?

Also: it’s not a serious ‘theory’; it was just a small amount of speculation.