Cancer: It's Not All in the Genes!
If you consider breast cancer unavoidable since your mother and sister both experienced it, you're in for a pleasant surprise. In "Cancer: it?s not all in the genes!" Barry Bittman, M.D. reports on breakthrough research that signal good and bad news in our struggle to discover a cure for cancer. The bad news is that despite recent advances in elucidating the human genome, it now appears that genetic manipulation will not put a halt to cancer. While genes appear to account for a portion of the risk, the majority is attributable to lifestyle choices. On the positive side, the statistics indicate that even in the presence of the same genetic makeup (identical twins), the risk of developing the same type of cancer was surprisingly low....  

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