Thursday, January 08, 2015

most cancer may simply be due to bad luck.

A journal article based on research done by a geneticist and a mathematician from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine came out a few days ago. They analysed and revised 40 years worth of theory on causes of different types of cancer (environmental, genetic, inheritance etc.)

Summary of their findings:

  1. A proportion of cancers are due to random errors that occur during cell division. (So for example, it's like.. painting your nails a certain colour, and having it turn out to be different from what you see in the bottle.) You don't get what you want,useless,waste of time, not cool.
  2. Two-thirds of cancer may just be due to bad luck, rather than hereditary or environmental factors. 

Hmm.. this information is both hopeful as well as unbelievable. Do you think the  human body has been made to remain healthy and functioning to it's fullest capacity while it is exposed to stresses of every kind on a daily basis? 

Life isn't how it was before, from the food we eat, to what we see and hear, to our opinions of ourselves, to what we are surrounded by everyday (various forms of technology). 

Do you think it's simply a case of bad luck?

Dividing cells,

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