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Friday 2 January 2015

Are two thirds of cancers really due to bad luck? | The Stats Guy

A paper published in Science has been widely reported in the media today. According to media reports, such as this one, the paper showed that two thirds of cancers are simply due to bad luck, and only one third are due to environmental, lifestyle, or genetic risk factors.

The paper shows no such thing, of course...

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