Pancreatic cancer risk increases with every 2 strips of bacon [or sausage] you eat: Study

cbs ^ | January 13, 2012 3:29 PM

[Hotlanta Mike]

[IncPen]

bacon ping

[BenLurkin]

Sometimes I wonder just what it is that FReepers think causes cancer? Evil spirits?

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Did my ex-wife hire you?” <<

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No, she has no interest in keeping you alive.

[AGreatPer]

Who knew, the pepperoni on our pizza is a killer.

[Brookhaven]

A 19% increase! I guess I’ll have to throw out the bacon, or maybe not. The important number is buried in the article:

“13.6 per 100,000 U.S. men develop pancreatic cancer”

So, a 19% increase would be 16.2 per 100,000 men.

All of the following say the same thing:

1) Eating bacon will increase your chances of pancreatic cancer by 19%.

2) Eating bacon will increase your chances of pancreatic cancer from 1.36/10,000 to 1.62/10,000.

3) 38,462 men must stop eating bacon to prevent one case of pancreatic cancer.

It’s all in how you present the numbers. There’s a reason they use percentages—it’s scary, but when you use real numbers it brings things into perspective.