She agreed that «a spouse may not only detect suspicious lesions on his or her partner, but may also provide encouragement to seek medical attention
for such lesions.
«However a key weakness is that these cases were selected from published studies, which makes one wonder about those
with such lesions who didn't go on to offend.
The key point there is «might contribute»
as such lesions would not likely be a direct cause and this specific study could not confirm causality.
Siddhartha Mukherjee: And how might one go about discriminating
between such lesions without knowing the future as it were in the present moment?
I suspect that the optimal (but not necessarily intermediate) amount of protein would be whatever most protected against the formation of pre-cancerous lesions to begin with, but that even this amount would be powerless to protect against the artificial induction
of such lesions by colossal quantities of aflatoxin.
Such lesions include: spinal degeneration, spinal infection or inflammation, demyelination injuries, or fibrocartilaginous embolism.
Prognosis
for such lesions is good, spontaneous recovery is frequent, and conditions improve as the dog grows older, as the immune response improves with the age.