Monterey, CA Cancer Screening Needs To Increase : Many Types Of Cancer Appear Randomly, Says Johns Hopkins Study

New research which was published in the journal Science has found that poor lifestyle choices and inherited genes are not the main causes of cancer as previously thought.  Rather, most types of cancer are simply due to bad luck when our stem-cell's start dividing.  These genetic mutations are, unfortunately, random and there's not much we can do about it.  Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of medicine said that we should continue to lead a healthy lifestyle as this will have some impact.  The study, however, indicates that there needs to be more early screening for various types of cancer because we will not be able to simply identify high risk groups to test because much of the causation is random.  "It means screening, it means also new research for new ways to detect cancer earlier," Dr. Cristian Tomasetti, assistant professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins, told the Wall Street Journal.  "Especially for those cancers where it looks like by far the majority is due to randomness..change in our lifestyle won't affect very much of the incidence of that cancer," he said.