The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
When smoking causes chemicals to go into your lungs, the the lung cells get exposed to these chemicals that then cause higher amounts of DNA damage, more mutations, and just as you have more mutations at a higher frequency, you're more likely to accumulate the set a set of mutations that will gradually go on to cause the generation of cancer.
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Now, there's certain processes that will accelerate that. One was exposure to things that cause DNA damage, right? The major one is is smoking. When smoking causes chemicals to go into your lungs, the the lung cells get exposed to these chemicals that then cause higher amounts of DNA damage, more mutations, and just as you have more mutations at a higher frequency, you're more likely to accumulate the set a set of mutations that will gradually go on to cause the generation of cancer.
Whole-body MRI screening in healthy adults produces more incidentaloma harm than cancer-mortality benefit.
Starting colonoscopy screening at 45 (vs 50) prevents enough early-onset cancers to justify the population cost.
Multi-cancer liquid-biopsy tests like Galleri detect early cancers at a stage that meaningfully improves survival.