Juergen Botz wrote:
> years it's 1.00%.  Given that colon cancer can be fatal and 
> that at least some other potential causes of death are NOT
> independent of age, that also means your probability of dying 
> from it rather than other causes gets higher the longer you 
> live.

I just realized that this is backwards from the way I meant
it.  I should have said that the longer you live, the higher
to total probability that you'll have had colon cancer in your
lifetime.  It isn't relative to other potential causes of death,
which of course increase with age.

:j