Game of chance: Are most cancers linked to nothing more than bad luck

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Last Posted: Jun 02, 2017

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• Game of chance: Are most cancers linked to nothing more than bad luck?  
  M Knight, June 1, 2017, Genetic Literacy Project
• Random Mutations Play Major Role in Cancer  
  NIH Director Blog, April 4,2017
• No, We Can’t Say Whether Cancer Is Mostly Bad Luck How some media outlets magnified the problems with a controversial new paper  
  Ed Yong, the Atlantic. March 2017
• DNA typos to blame for most cancer mutations Environment and heredity might not contribute as much to cancer risk as researchers thought.  
  H Ledford, Nature News, March 2017
• New study finds that most cancer mutations are due to random DNA copying ‘mistakes’  
  Science Magazine, March 2017
• Cancer Is Partly Caused By Bad Luck, Study Finds  
  NPR Health, March 23, 2017
• Most cancer mutations arise from ‘bad luck,’ but many cases still preventable, researchers say  
  S Begley, StatNews, March 23, 2017
• Personalized medicine for prevention: can risk stratified screening decrease colorectal cancer mortality at an acceptable cost?  
  Subramanian Sujha et al. Cancer causes & control : CCC 2017 Feb
• Recruiting families at risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer from a statewide cancer registry: a methodological study.  
  Katapodi Maria C et al. Cancer causes & control : CCC 2017 Feb
• Cancer Causes: Inheritance, 'Bad Luck,' and the Environment  
  William Nelson, ACCR, July 16, 2015
• Causality and Chance in the Development of Cancer  
  L Luzatto et al, NEJM< July 2, 2015
• Strategies to Prevent “Bad Luck” in Cancer  
  A Albini et al. JNCI, October 2015
• Proceedings of the second international molecular pathological epidemiology (MPE) meeting.  
  Ogino Shuji et al. Cancer Causes Control 2015 May 9.
• Causes of Cancer  
   A Special Issue of the Annals of Epidemiology, March 2015
• Blood lipids and colorectal polyps: testing an etiologic hypothesis using phenotypic measurements and Mendelian randomization.  
  Passarelli Michael N et al. Cancer Causes Control 2015 Jan 25.
• Associations among family history of cancer, cancer screening and lifestyle behaviors: a population-based study.