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Cancer risk highly linked to mere bad luck
A cell undergoing division.
About two-thirds of all cancer cases were not caused by environmental factors or bad genes, but rather resulted from random bad luck during stem cell division, a new statistical study says.
This means more effort is needed for early detection.
There are many types of cancer, but they are all basically cells running amok and multiplying without check, which leads to tumors...
Cancer cases to reach 24 mn yearly by 2035: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has predicted that the number of different cases of cancer across the globe would soar to 24 million a year by 2035.
The urgent priority is to identify and tackle the causes of cancer, which are mainly linked to people’s lifestyle, WHO emphasized.
While fourteen million people a year are currently diagnosed with cancer, it is estimated the number will increase...