Colorectal cancer, then, is a relatively common and deadly disease. It tends to hit people later in life, when they're eventually going to die of something in any case. But still, it's worth trying to avoid.
Let's say you're a man, you have about a 5% chance of eventually getting colorectal cancer, and you up your bacon consumption by two pieces a day.
That increases your cancer risk to almost 6% -- not a trivial jump.