“Nearly One in Four Americans Will Die of Cancer” (NYT)–Unless You Are a Woman, a Non-Smoker, Middle-Class or over 35 . . .
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Summary- Not long ago, a New York Times editorial repeated a statistic that you may have heard before: “one in four Americans are projected to die of cancer.”
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