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- Dysarthria, on 04/07/2008, -8/+314DUGG DOWN!
Why?
1) its pooled data thats 37-14 years out of date.
2) Its only for colon cancer in men.
3) The color map is misleading, the in cancer mortality between the "coolest" blue and the "warmest" red is roughly 15/100K and 23/100K; or .015% to .023%. Thus, your chance of dying of colon cancer increased by a whopping 8 thousandths of a percent higher in these largely urban/rust belt areas.
4) Dying of colon cancer at all is now almost a matter of choice. With the exception of some rare familial syndromes, regular screening will cut your risk of dying from this disease to almost nothing. So, let the doctor stick a tube up your ass for 45 minutes every 10 years, its worth it. - macrymble, on 04/07/2008, -7/+73yesss...finally a statistic where the south isn't in last place
- peregrine, on 04/07/2008, -0/+25Thanks for clearing this up. I thought something was fishy here.
- Lunarbunny, on 04/07/2008, -2/+25Heart disease takes 'em before cancer can.
- theForemanGrill, on 04/07/2008, -12/+27MIRROR : http://imager.cc/page9/cancermortalityrates/
- Wacer, on 04/07/2008, -8/+21The Great Lakes are full of chemicals that are increasing cancer. The government won't release the study they did on the northeast part of the country because it is too disturbing.
http://coanews.org/article/2008/great-lakes-danger ... - edwartica, on 04/07/2008, -2/+13Nah, look at the West coast. God just hates Easterners.
- afidler, on 04/07/2008, -1/+11Note, this is for colon cancer in males only, not cancer in general as the title/description suggests.
- PeterODactyl, on 04/07/2008, -0/+8Here's a scarier map:
http://cancercontrolplanet.cancer.gov/atlas/index. ... - Mooinakan, on 04/07/2008, -0/+8I'm in Michigan, and I'm scared. =[
- biotch, on 04/07/2008, -0/+8This is a really weird map though ... its only white males who died specifically from colon cancer and its long out of date too ... whats the point of posting this map?
- jonohull, on 04/07/2008, -0/+7This chart uses proportions, not absolute numbers.
- Zera, on 04/07/2008, -0/+7The Digg Title was horribly misleading, but that doesn't excuse you from RTFA......
"COLON Cancer Mortality Rates in WHITE MEN 1970-1994" - bryanricker, on 04/07/2008, -2/+8The title of this post leaves out the important fact that this map shows mortality rates for COLON cancer only in WHITE MALES only, and only goes up to 14 years ago form 1970.
- Zera, on 04/07/2008, -1/+7You need to re-take third grade graph reading class.
- degron, on 04/07/2008, -12/+18Looks like a reverse Rep/Dem map and from that is looks like being a democrat causes colon cancer...
- DRINKxREDxBULL, on 04/07/2008, -1/+6Dugg for the last sentence.
- DephexTwin, on 04/07/2008, -2/+7You were last place in the spelling bee, I take it.
- dafragsta, on 04/07/2008, -3/+8The moral of the story is that Mormons don't die from colon cancer.
- uptown, on 04/07/2008, -2/+6Maybe God wants to chill w/ Easterners sooner, so he kills 'em sooner....
- JettaMan, on 04/07/2008, -1/+5Cause: chowda
- egthareal, on 04/07/2008, -1/+5Um it says Colon cancer in white males from 1970-94.
I've got two issues with that...
#1. This graph is pretty old, colon cancer tests now prevent a lot of deaths.
#2. It's colon cancer so it's hardly representative of any pollution etc. I would suggest a combination more of lifestyles of how people live and population density. - CokeBear, on 04/07/2008, -1/+5OK, I laughed out loud. To the folks who dug this one down, have you no sense of humor?
- inactive, on 04/07/2008, -0/+4We go to Florida to die, everyone knows that.
- viserov, on 04/07/2008, -0/+4Thanks for the mirror, but the ads on that page may be NSFW. Just a warning.
- jayobear, on 04/07/2008, -0/+4You bastard.
- DiggLive, on 04/07/2008, -1/+5"I too have felt the cold finger of injustice on my insidey parts"
- avonalt, on 04/07/2008, -0/+3Call me illiterate but I fail to see how ProducedRaw is wrong. Like he said it's a mortality rate. Utah with 8.89/100,000 WHITE MALES dieing has a lower colon cancer mortality rate than New York with 23.21/100,000 WHITE MALE deaths. Now if theymisrepresented the study and compared white male deaths to the total population of an area you might have an argument.... but that would just be stupid.
- Abomonog, on 04/07/2008, -4/+7Most of the highest cancer rates are right in the industrial belt. The rest (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire) are directly downwind. Go Figure.
- vade79, on 04/07/2008, -1/+4Apparently just coloring a map blue and red makes it like a dem/rep map....cause it doesn't really resemble it that much :/
- OneLess, on 04/07/2008, -0/+3Hopefully they don't replace "you" with "u" at your workplace when getting patient information.
- tunafizzle, on 04/07/2008, -0/+3mirror?
- elnerdo, on 04/07/2008, -0/+3Ok, this map isn't actually saying that more people get cancer in the North, or that the cancer risk is higher in the North or ANY of that. In a first-world country, a higher cancer-mortality rate is GOOD. Cancer is (Usually) death by old-age. This means that people were NOT dying of other things.
The Southern states most likely have a higher rate of death from heart disease to compensate. - OneLess, on 04/07/2008, -0/+3Breast cancer in your colon...SF is way more ***** up than I could have ever imagined.
- mahdaeng, on 04/07/2008, -1/+3But then you'll bump the stats up.
- tonicboy, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Each shade is a percentile. Charts such as this are commonly used on the planet Earth.
- kelmaster1, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2ya, they've found a bunch of endocrine distruptors or EDC's in the lakes, which are not regulated by the EPA. I'm glad i live in western Montana
- TVarmy, on 04/07/2008, -2/+4Ah, you beat me to it! And then on the West Coast, people just don't die there.
- darkecho, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Damnit.. Another bad thing for Michigan... Very rarely do we catch a break.
- revolucion2412, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2I'm from that area of montana, and I'm sure the reason is the asbestos in Libby, location of what the Environmental Protection Agency has called 'the worst case of industrial poisoning of a whole community in American history.' It has been a constant problem since the mine was opened there over 40 years ago and since then has contributed to numerous health problems amongst the population there. It's much better now that the EPA acknowledged that the health concerns were directly related to the asbestos contamination in '99.
- ausfahrt, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Chowderrrrrr...
- inactive, on 04/07/2008, -7/+9http://vocalodyssey.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/mi ...
- RockMuncher, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2We've actually found that colon cancer has an extremely high genetic link.. specifically traced to one family who moved to America in 1630. It's called a founder mutation, and I bet (if the chart was based on accurate, logical number and not just random percentages for each colour) if you held up a migration and heritage map to a real colon cancer chart, you would see the two match quite well.
Here's the reuters cover of the genetic link... it's a lot less technical than the medical studies: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSL285 ... - oldcyborg, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Statistics..... Bah!! Malevolent *****.....
Cyborg - silicon, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2alaska is not to scale because is frak'ing huge!
- ProducedRaw, on 04/07/2008, -1/+3It says 'Cancer Mortality RATES' and in the key it states that the figures are per 100,000.
- Pinkertinkle, on 04/07/2008, -0/+1It might as well be a map of smoking prevalence. The number one cancer related cause of death is lung cancer, due to smoking. Please stop smoking. I moved to New York from California and way too many people smoke here.
- kingvik, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1per capita
- RockRNifty13, on 04/07/2008, -0/+1It's probably because of the magic underwear.
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