Cancer is Mostly Just Bad Luck

Guest: Cristian Tomasetti, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Exercise, eat leafy greens, don’t smoke . . . all great advice for preventing cancer, but not enough to prevent all cancers. New research out of Johns Hopkins University, suggests two-thirds of gene mutations that cause cancer are completely out of our control. They’re just bad luck.