title: Of Cancer and Random Mutations.
abstract: In an expanded analysis that includes data from 69 countries, researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, once again report a strong correlation between stem-cell division rates and lifetime cancer risk. They have also calculated, for the first time, the respective contributions of random replication errors, environmental factors, and heredity to mutations that drive cancer.
mesh_terms: D015142:Baltimore; D000066673:Cell Self Renewal; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D009369:Neoplasms