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>I think that the best weapon that the general public has against cancer is autophagy, triggered by keeping blood glucose very low at least some of the time. Metabolic changes that can awaken apoptosis might kill many of these mutation carriers.

Since fasting is the best way to induce autophagy, that could explain the apparent negative correlation between cancer rate and a country's food supply [.] http://globalcancermap.com/ [.] https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply

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no, thats explained at how young people die, also related to a country’s food and water supply

Africa’s average age is half of North America’s, and after controlling for infant mortality still so few other people make it to the much higher life expectancy limit (which is still 10-15 years lower than North America) there that there isnt opportunity for cancer diagnosis to rear up as often! Let alone be tested for cancer to understand if that was an ailment or contributing comorbidity.

Makes sense, but can you prove it?

which parts? you really want me to provide sources on average age as well as life expectancy? you don't know the accepted consensuses on why societies in the continent of Africa operate in abysmal conditions to support human life uninterrupted?

I don't think I'm compelled to provide that but I'm open to counter theories

The counter theory is the comment that OP made. Your response opens with a denial of OPs theory; this response would be more effective with citations. Your theory makes sense, but I just don't see why it has to be mutually exclusive. Maybe they're both factors to varying degrees?

sure, I can accept a multipronged explanation, I already acknowledged that both of our observations are related to the food supply issues chronic on that continent, I don't think their specific correlation has been studied though so there's nothing to really say. My hypothesis is that my observations (which have been studied and are actively being addressed by many organizations) are going to have a greater weight by mere deduction: there is nothing unique enough about people in Africa that would make cancer appear earlier, and since they die earlier there and have worse preventative treatment to know other upcoming ailments, the cancer wouldn't come up because they're already dead from other basic infrastructure issues.

What I'm reading is "hey here is this ailment people get in their 60s, here's this continent where people barely survive until their 60s, do you have a citation for why people there don't frequently get that ailment there? we should really study that"