Nearly Two-Thirds of Cancers Are Due to Random DNA 'Mistakes'

Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 18:11 in Health & Medicine

Cancer is a disease cause by mistakes in DNA, and now a new study finds that majority of these mistakes are completely random — they're not due to heredity or environmental factors, but rather the result of random errors.

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