Most Cancers Due to "Bad Luck" - Not Environmental or Hereditary Factors

Roughly two-thirds of variations in cancer risk across different tissue types can be attributed to "bad luck" - namely, mutations that occur randomly during DNA replication in healthy stem cells - researchers conclude in Science . The researchers compared the rate of stem cell division in 31 types of tissues with the average lifetime risk for certain cancers in the U.S. .

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