(Not strictly a response to the article, just something I’ve been wondering for a while now.)<p>> They found that the more cells need to divide to stay healthy, the more likely cancer is to develop.<p>So basically to improve our chances of staying cancer-free we ought to make such dietary and lifestyle choices that preserve the existing cells, reducing the need for their division?<p>And I suppose learning about genetic and environmental factors that correlate with higher chances of cancer in certain organs, and researching choices affecting cell division rate in those particular organs, can give additional significant advantage.<p>Is it that simple?
It seems to be counting types of cancer (by their location in the body) rather than incidence. This makes it potentially meaningless. Those 9 cancers caused by lifestyle, might also be the 9 most common or most deadly ones.