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Cancer: lifestyle risk or just bad luck?

17-Dec-2015

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New study published in Nature concludes only 10-30% of cancers were down to “luck”.

A January report in Science explained some tissues were millions of times more vulnerable to developing cancer than others due to number of times a cell divides.

Argument is about relative importance of intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

Smoking is like putting extra bullets in your gun for Russian roulette.

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Kevin McConway

Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at The Open University

Nature

Scientific journal covering research from a variety of academic disciplines, mostly in science and technology

Science

Peer-reviewed academic online journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Stony Brook Cancer Center

Oncologist at Stony Brook Medicine.

Yusuf A. Hannun

Director of Stony Brook Cancer Center.

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