Featured blog: Data from the vast majority of human cancer trials never get published, a new study finds — and that's not a good thing.

New research has found that environmental exposures, lifestyle choices and other factors that could be changed or avoided account for between 70% and 90% of the gene mutations that make cancerous ...

In their new research, Tomasetti and Vogelstein, both of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, examined data on 32 kinds of cancer, from the brain to the bones to the blood.

Bad luck is an element in cancer, as in most forms of adversity; but it is a minor element. Most cancers are mostly preventable by means and modifications long at our disposal.

There has been an ongoing debate in the scientific community on whether cancer is simply a matter of “bad luck” or if it can be prevented. This debate was significantly bolstered by a study ...

The vast majority of research does not show that cancer is the result of bad luck. Rather it shows that most cancers are theoretically preventable. Yet when the Science article in question: ...

'Bad luck' of random mutations plays predominant role in cancer, study shows Date: January 1, 2015 Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Summary: A statistical model has been created that measures the ...

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.

A new study suggests that two-thirds of cancer cases can be put down to the bad luck of random DNA mutations rather than unhealthy lifestyles or inherited genes.. The new research, published in ...

John D. Carpten, Ph.D., a prominent genomics researcher and chief scientific officer at cancer research and treatment institution City of Hope, has these concerns.