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Many cancers caused by bad luck from random cell mutations
« on: March 24, 2017, 09:10:12 AM »
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Re: Many cancers caused by bad luck from random cell mutations
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2017, 09:12:50 AM »
See, cancer is not a choice. People with cancer are born that way, and it's faaaaaabulous.
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Re: Many cancers caused by bad luck from random cell mutations
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2017, 09:31:37 AM »
The X-men have to start somewhere.....
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Re: Many cancers caused by bad luck from random cell mutations
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2017, 10:22:33 AM »
I thought it was the state of California that causes cancer
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Re: Many cancers caused by bad luck from random cell mutations
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2017, 11:27:22 AM »
Quote from: MillCreek on March 24, 2017, 09:10:12 AM
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/521219318/cancer-is-partly-caused-by-bad-luck-study-finds?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=science

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6331/1330

Some cancers are caused by environmental factors or lifestyle choices and others are just the luck of the draw.



I remember that from my physiology class from many moons ago.

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Re: Many cancers caused by bad luck from random cell mutations
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2017, 11:54:45 AM »
Two brothers bought lottery tickets at the same time....I'm Bob:


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Re: Many cancers caused by bad luck from random cell mutations
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2017, 07:56:08 PM »
Cancer is not caused by bad luck.






And that's lucky for me,  else I'd be dead from it long ago. [tinfoil]
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Re: Many cancers caused by bad luck from random cell mutations
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2017, 01:23:05 AM »
Quote from: TommyGunn on March 24, 2017, 07:56:08 PM
Cancer is not caused by bad luck.






And that's lucky for me,  else I'd be dead from it long ago. [tinfoil]

RNA does what RNA does
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Re: Many cancers caused by bad luck from random cell mutations
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2017, 05:17:43 AM »
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The authors of the study published Thursday poked a hornet's nest by suggesting that many cancers are unavoidable.

The provocative findings by Bert Vogelstein and Cristian Tomasetti at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, have stirred up a heated scientific debate that started two years ago, when they published a report along similar lines.

Back then, critics said they were undercutting important messages about cancer prevention

I wonder just which people might be the ones freaking out about this possibility...
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Re: Many cancers caused by bad luck from random cell mutations
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2017, 05:46:31 AM »
Quote from: charby on March 24, 2017, 11:27:22 AM
I remember that from my physiology class from many moons ago.



Seems to me John W. Campbell Jr. had a discussion along the same lines in Analog/Astounding SF magazine back in the 1950s.

Not to diminish the importance of the present study, but "so what else is new?"

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