Mesotheliomas Attributed to Cell Replication Errors
Tomasetti & Vogelstein (2015) described how many cancers were not preventable. The authors purported to show that “[t]he majority of cancer is due to ‘bad luck,’ that is, random mutations arising during DNA replication in normal, noncancerous stem cells.” Tomasetti, et al. (2017) went further. The authors examined many more cancers, including mesothelioma. They found…