Most cancer mutations due to 'bad luck,' but many cases still preventable

Most cancer mutations due to 'bad luck,' but many cases still preventable

Most cancer mutations arise from ‘bad luck,’ but many cases still preventable, researchers say

SHARON BEGLEY @sxbegle

MARCH 23, 2017

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t was the study that launched hundreds of scientific rebuttals, insinuations that the authors had been paid off by the chemical industry, and charges that it was a “massive” stunt “hidden behind fancy numbers of doubtful quality.”