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People are living past 30 with startling regularity, when you realize that for most of human history that wasn't the case. Cancers were one a very long list of things that could kill you and no where near the top.

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Far more bulk than was previously affordable by many is also a big factor though, i.e. better nutrition leads to a taller generation and height correlates with risk.

If you have twice the mass you are rolling twice the dice.

I was once curious about this regarding breast size and breast cancer. Does more cells in the body simply correlate to more dice rolls each cell generation?

(Yes I’m sure this sounds woefully ignorant of how things work)

While one can't really apply this model in comparisons between individuals, it tends to hold up in population models and is used to try to figure out how some species have evolved better defenses. For example:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-ele...

For one individual they might have a number of genetic factors that in a world of perfect models could be used to calculate risk of an organ cancer per gram of the organ.. In the case of breast cancer there are studies on breast reduction and risk, but the one I found is not freely available..

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