Friday 2 January 2015

Luck Plays Greater Role in Cancer Than Genes and Environment

The role of "bad luck" is more in cancer than genes and environment, claim scientists, with a statistical model that measures the proportion of cancer incidence. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have created a statistical model that measures the proportion of cancer incidence, across many tissue types, caused mainly by random mutations that occur when stem cells divide. By their measure, two-thirds of adult cancer incidence across tissues ...

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