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see the actual chance of dying from cancer here: http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerBasics/lifetime-probabili...

So for men the lifetime risk of dying from some kind of cancer goes from about 23% to around 19% based on the 21% reduction in overall cancer deaths found in the study.

Specfically for 'death due to gastrointestinal cancers' dropping 54%. Assuming that statistic would be paired with the chance of death from stomach cancer at the above site, happy to be corrected if more of the cancers described there should be included. However if is just that then your chance of dying from that specific cancer goes from 0.53% to about 0.25%.



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