... These results suggest that only a third of the variation in cancer risk among tissues is attributable to environmental factors or inherited predispositions. The majority is due to “bad luck,” that is, random mutations arising during DNA replication in normal, noncancerous stem cells.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
cancer risks
Two-Thirds of Cancer Risk Is Seen as Purely Random - actually no need to read the nyt article, this abstract from Science is quite sufficient:
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