Out of the 31 cancers examined in tissues, 22 cancers are linked to bad luck. The random mutations occur in genes that cause cancer occur due to unspecified reasons. In the rest of the cases, it can be linked to heredity or current living habits or environmental factors.
The best way to fight bad luck cancers is through early detection and surgery.
The research paper was published in the journal Science, by Cristian Tomasetti and geneticist Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University.
Science 2 January 2015:
Vol. 347 no. 6217 pp. 78-81
DOI: 10.1126/science.1260825
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Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions
Cristian Tomasetti,, Bert Vogelstein
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6217/78
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