Scientists from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have created a statistical model that measures the proportion of cancer incidence, across many tissue types, caused mainly by random mutations ...

In January 2015, a compelling study published in the journal Science reported that most cancers are random and out of one’s control. The study made waves, challenging decades of public health ...

Cancer patients often wonder “why me?” Does their tumor run in the family? Did they try hard enough to avoid risks like smoking, too much sun or a bad diet? Lifestyle and heredity get the most blame ...

Stochasticity is everywhere -- and finding the order in disorder can unlock new ways to understand biology. Erlon Silva - TRI Digital/Moment via Getty Images Cancer is often seen as a disease that ...

Researchers have pinpointed a mechanism that may help explain how chromosomal translocations -- the supposedly random shuffling of large chunks of DNA that frequently lead to cancer -- aren't so ...

Cancer patients often wonder "why me?" Does their tumor run in the family? Did they try hard enough to avoid risks like smoking, too much sun or a bad diet? Lifestyle and heredity get the most blame ...

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On the first day of the school year in September 2005, my wife Karin was diagnosed with a life-threatening, aggressive form of breast cancer. We had three children age seven and under. Karin, being a ...

I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t fear the big “C” diagnosis. Most people spend a lot of time trying to figure out where it came from. Is this the same kind of cancer that Great Aunt Sally had, ...