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Cancer prevention, bad luck and bad wording

News 31 March 2017 0

Cancer, genetics, “bad luck” and prevention through lifestyle: two years after their first study that tried to quantify the random mutations that accumulate during stem cell divisions in healthy cells and drive cancer in different [more]

Our cancer risk is not written in the stars

Number 66

Focus 1 May 2015 1

If Tomasetti and Vogelstein had not used the words bad luck in their paper on how variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions, the media might [more]