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1 June 2011

Cancer risk doubled or halved

AFTER reading our feature on how Kate Middleton snared her mate, by Geoffrey Miller (23 April, p 37), Karoline Schmidt was minded to contradict the statement that Prince William “possesses the good genes destined to make this a biologically beneficent union”. She remembered having read that going bald early indicates a heightened risk of prostate cancer.

To make sure she was right, she typed “prostate cancer bald” into a famous search engine, only to discover that the risk of getting cancer when you’re bald depends on the newspaper you read, at least in the UK. …

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