Article: The Celiac Surge
by Catherine Offord (TheScientist)
A rapid increase in the global incidence of the condition has researchers scrambling to understand the causes of the trend, and cope with the consequences. (Full Text)
Inforgraphic: Immune Irritation in the Gut
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Cancer isn’t just bad luck
Cancer isn’t just bad luck
By Thomas Lumley
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From Stuff, "Bad luck is responsible for two-thirds of adult cancer while the remaining cases are due to environmental risk factors and inherited genes, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center found."
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So, in summary: the “two-thirds of cancers explained” is Just Wrong. Doing a mathematically correct calculation gives about one third. Doing a calculation that’s actually relevant to cancer in the population gives even smaller values. (update) That’s not to say that DNA replication errors are unimportant — the paper makes it clear that they are important.
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The fulltext: Cancer isn't just bad luck
By Thomas Lumley
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From Stuff, "Bad luck is responsible for two-thirds of adult cancer while the remaining cases are due to environmental risk factors and inherited genes, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center found."
...
So, in summary: the “two-thirds of cancers explained” is Just Wrong. Doing a mathematically correct calculation gives about one third. Doing a calculation that’s actually relevant to cancer in the population gives even smaller values. (update) That’s not to say that DNA replication errors are unimportant — the paper makes it clear that they are important.
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The fulltext: Cancer isn't just bad luck
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