60% Cancers are due to bad luck?40% are preventable!

Scientists have published new research that suggests up to 60% of cancers could be caused by random DNA mutations, rendering those cancers completely unavoidable. The other 40%, however, could be prevented via diet, exercise, and other environmental factors.

Mutations occur each time our cells divide. that 66 percent of mutations are random, 29 percent are caused by environmental factors, and 5 percent are due to hereditary factors.

Usually, these mutations take place in segments of DNA that aren’t very important. However, if a mutation occurs in a cancer driver gene, we might suffer from some bad luck.