Science, please!

Is there really anything we can do to prevent cancer; are we better packing it up and conceding that at some point we will all succumb to the emperor or all maladies? A well reported paper by the media last week in the journal, Science, does appear to have suggested this, and is surely a rude surprise to cancer researchers globally (including myself)!The paper in question found that 2/3 of the lifetime risk of developing cancer could be explained by only the random errors that accumulate overtime when cells replicate. This is indeed a shocking finding, but lets unpack it a little and see whether it is really saying all it has been reported as in the media - hint, it is not!Recent article reports cancer is due to mostly stochastic errors in cell divisions.Lung cancer, however,  falls out of this category, hence it cannot be explained solely by the luck factor.source :http://tinyurl.com/okdtt3wFirstly, the study accounts for 31 cell-types in its analysis and measured the association with the corresponding