{"id":78773,"date":"2015-01-02T10:17:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T10:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=78773"},"modified":"2015-01-02T10:17:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T10:17:01","slug":"cancer-types-just-bad-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/01\/cancer-types-just-bad-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Most cancer types ‘just bad luck’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Most types of cancer can be put down to bad luck rather than risk factors such as smoking, a study has suggested.<\/p>\n
A US team were trying to explain why some tissues were millions of times more vulnerable to cancer than others.<\/p>\n
The results, in the journal Science, showed two thirds of the cancer types analysed were caused just by chance mutations rather than lifestyle.<\/p>\n
However some of the most common and deadly cancers are still heavily influenced by lifestyle.<\/p>\n
And Cancer Research UK said a healthy lifestyle would still heavily stack the odds in a person’s favour.<\/p>\n
So is it time to light-up, drink and eat what you want without a care in the world?<\/p>\n
It won’t come as a surprise that the answer is no.<\/p>\n
All cancer has an element of chance – a roll of the dice that decides whether your DNA acquires a mutation that leads to cancer.<\/p>\n
The study shows that two thirds of cancer types are simply chance.<\/p>\n
But the remaining third are still heavily influenced by the choices we make.<\/p>\n
Too much booze, time in the sun or being overweight mean we are playing with loaded dice and the odds are not in our favour.<\/p>\n
Remember smoking accounts for a fifth of all cancers worldwide.<\/p>\n
These findings are a reminder that cancer is often just bad luck and the only option is early detection.<\/p>\n
But that’s not an excuse to give up on those new year’s resolutions already.<\/p>\n