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>>gpi+(OP)
I haven't heard this before - the change isn't that large but but it really does drop after 80

My inclination is that this could still just be a selection effect. For people who are prone to cancer, you are probably dead by 80.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...

>>marinm+V7
Isn't it simply because these people won't ever get cancer, and so they die of something else. So if you reach a certain age you outlive most people that would die from cancer.

And then always researchers try to find a clue in the patient and see like oh hey they have more iron, iron must be the solution, but maybe the person just didn't get cancer because (s)he had a healthy lifestyle and relatively little stress.

>>gitaar+ju
> … these people won't ever get cancer …

Prostate cancer is surprisingly prevalent but (commonly) slow-proliferating, and is often “beaten to the punch” by other causes of mortality.