Cancer Is Partly Caused By Bad Luck, Study Finds
Researchers have long known behavior, environment and genetics play a role in cancer. A study in Science finds luck is also a major factor. Nearly two-thirds of cancer mutations arise randomly.
Cancer can be caused by tobacco smoke or by an inherited trait, but new research finds that most of the mutations that lead to cancer crop up naturally.
The authors of the study published Thursday poked a hornet's nest by suggesting that many cancers are unavoidable.
The provocative findings by and at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, have stirred up a heated scientific debate that started
