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points by hawk_ 4 days ago | 0 comments

Did you suspect you had a higher chance than general population? If so why?

Not really. I try to live a pretty healthy lifestyle. I work as a cancer researcher, so I have more contact with these data.

[–] hawk_ 4 days ago

That's crazy. And you don't deal with wet lab I imagine, so just a freak occurrence.

[–] Spacecosmonaut 3 days ago

50/50 wet lab & computation. We do large genetic screens in vitro.

[–] hawk_ 3 days ago

Neurosurgeons are at a higher risk of certain dementias and the purported mechanism is exposure to brain tissue during surgery. Any chance the same could be true for GI tract or cancers in general?