Genes vs environment seems like an obvious thing to track. Most people in most places don’t move around that much (unlike many members of our community) so if cancers are contagious for many cancers, especially rarer ones, you’d expect to see strong regional correlations (likely stronger than genetic correlations).
Maybe? It doesn’t seem very common for infectious diseases to remain in one area. It depends a lot on how they are transmitted.
It’s also not unusual for a non-infectious disease to have significant geographical patterns.
There are cancers which are concentrated in particular areas, but there seem to be guesses for those patterns that don’t depend on fungal infections.
Genes vs environment seems like an obvious thing to track. Most people in most places don’t move around that much (unlike many members of our community) so if cancers are contagious for many cancers, especially rarer ones, you’d expect to see strong regional correlations (likely stronger than genetic correlations).
Maybe? It doesn’t seem very common for infectious diseases to remain in one area. It depends a lot on how they are transmitted. It’s also not unusual for a non-infectious disease to have significant geographical patterns. There are cancers which are concentrated in particular areas, but there seem to be guesses for those patterns that don’t depend on fungal infections.