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    Most Cancer Is Out of Our Control Random DNA changes are usually to blame BY ALICE PARK LIFESTYLE OR BAD LUCK? IT DEPENDS (WE THINK WE KNOW WHAT CAUSES CANCER: ‘ON THE CANCER smoking, the sun's UV rays, tumor causing genes ‘we inherit from Mom and Dad. But these factors alone can't explain why cancer in its many forms i ee ens is poised to edge out heart disease as America’s Le ee ie ener No. rkiller within the next few years. That rise has sparked a spate of research into how much of cancers within our control and how much of itis simply aroll of the genetic dice, Now, in an eye-opening study published in ‘Science, researchers report that the majority of cancer types are the result of pure chance, the product of random genetic mutations that occur when stem cells—which keep the body chugging along, replacing older cells as, they die off—make mistakes copying the cells’ DNA. Cristian Tomasetti and Dr. Bert Vogelstein at the Sidney Kimmel Com- prehensive Cancer Center of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine making mary errors BASAL-CELL CARCINOMA \@ The most common skin ‘cancer is triggered by exposure to UV rays: Lue ‘Smoking, and the carcinogens in tobacco ‘smoke, are the main

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