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Cancer and height are linked, new study shows
UPI ^
| 10/02/2015
| Shawn Price
Posted on 10/02/2015 7:28:03 AM PDT by Phlap
The taller you are, the greater your risk of cancer, a new Swedish study released Friday suggests.
A massive 50-year study by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm tracking five million Swedes supported previous research that suggests that height and cancer are connected. In the study, taller people were found to have higher incidences of breast and skin cancer as well as other types of cancer.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cancer
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Revenge of the short people.
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:28:03 AM PDT
by
Phlap
To: Phlap
In the study, taller people were found to have higher incidences of breast and skin cancer as well as other types of cancer.
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In the case of skin cancer, they are closer to the sun.
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:29:18 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Phlap; LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Ping.
Saw this, thought of you, don’t know why...
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:29:20 AM PDT
by
null and void
(The voter pool needs chlorine, or maybe formaldihyde...)
To: Phlap
Well, we are closer to the sun.
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:29:34 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
To: Phlap
Cancer and being alive are also highly linked.
Oh, and drinking water...
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:30:54 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: Moonman62
In the case of skin cancer, they are closer to the sun.Mine was down on my leg. Must have been the day I was doing head stands on the beach.
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:34:04 AM PDT
by
Stentor
("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
To: Moonman62
“In the case of skin cancer, they are closer to the sun.”
I thinks it’s because the Shorties are standing in our shade.
To: Phlap
More cells to get messed up.
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:34:26 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Phlap
Hey, stretch! How’s the cancer up there?
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:35:12 AM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: Phlap
Great news - for me and some of my short relatives and friends, that is.
Sorry about the rest of you.
Actually, there are only one or two times where I'm acutely aware of height "issues," when I'm standing up at my seat stretching after a long or not so long flight, while tall people are either still in their seats or hunched over and at the grocery stores that insist on having their top shelves beginning around 5' 8" and I need to get stockers to retrieve items from there (such as Diet Coke, which should tell me to quit drinking the vile stuff, and other items need.)
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:36:16 AM PDT
by
zerosix
(Native Sunflower)
To: Moonman62
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:37:27 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Section 20.)
To: blueunicorn6
More cells to get messed up. Not only that, they eat more than little fellers, on average, so their intake of carcinogens is increased.
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:42:42 AM PDT
by
bkopto
To: Phlap
I call BS. I did an inventory of everyone I know that has gotten cancer(16). They are all shorter than my 6’ 1’.
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:43:27 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Section 20.)
To: Phlap
Apparently us shorties do have a reason to live.
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:43:33 AM PDT
by
mykroar
("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
To: Phlap
confounding and hidden variables
correlation does not assert causation
mehhh
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:44:27 AM PDT
by
Principled
(...the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others...)
To: zerosix
at the grocery stores that insist on having their top shelves beginning around 5' 8" and I need to get stockers to retrieve items from there... If the mooch is around, maybe she'll help...
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:44:41 AM PDT
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: Moonman62
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:47:21 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: Phlap
What a bunch of Bolshevik, I know too many short people that have contracted cancer, what about children, is it preemptive?
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:48:06 AM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: blueunicorn6
More cells to get messed up.My first thought.
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:53:55 AM PDT
by
stayathomemom
(Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
To: Mastador1
They aren’t saying it’s absolute but relative.
Perhaps greater presence of growth hormones have the side effect of encouraging cancer cells to evade normal bodily defenses that tend to militate against cancers.
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posted on
10/02/2015 7:54:01 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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