Re: left handed twist on breast cancer


"DVDfever Dom" <google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> a.c. wrote:
>> I'm not sure if this news item has yet featured within the uk, even
>> though I heard mention of the British Medical Journal, (on Belgium news
>> programme) but apparantly left handed women are 40% more likely to get
>> breast cancer. How odd!
>
> They're not, it's just the results of a survey.

They wouldn't have released the results if they weren't significant.

> The Sun had one on Saturday about how only those with the starsign
> Cancer can be funny (and mentioned Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Saunders
> among the names).
>
> Then they revealed that of 300 comedy actors/writers/etc, 11% were of
> that starsign.

I'm sure the BMJ's methodology is somewhat different to the Sun's.


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