So you quit smoking, don't eat meat, load up on cruciferous vegetables and only drink bottled water. You got Cancer cornered. Or do you?
Cancer comes "no matter how perfect the environment", according to co-author Dr Bert Vogelstein, also from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
Prostate, brain and bone cancers are 95% caused by mutations due to random DNA copying errors. And the copy problem leads to 77% of pancreatic cancers.
In fact, 66% of all cancers come from copying errors, 29% from lifestyle or environmental factors, and just 5% from inherited faulty genes.
Dirty Harry said it best, ‘You've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?’
Cancer comes "no matter how perfect the environment", according to co-author Dr Bert Vogelstein, also from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
Prostate, brain and bone cancers are 95% caused by mutations due to random DNA copying errors. And the copy problem leads to 77% of pancreatic cancers.
In fact, 66% of all cancers come from copying errors, 29% from lifestyle or environmental factors, and just 5% from inherited faulty genes.
Dirty Harry said it best, ‘You've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?’