Biomedicine. The bad luck of cancer.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Mechanisms and Therapeutic Advances of PXR in Metabolic Diseases and Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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2. Cancer Prevalence across Vertebrates.Cancer discovery · 2025
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3. Cancer Prevalence Across Vertebrates.Research square · 2023
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4. Cancer risk across mammals.Nature · 2022
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5. Fatty Acids and Membrane Lipidomics in Oncology: A Cross-Road of Nutritional, Signaling and Metabolic Pathways.Metabolites · 2020
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6. Environmental Carcinogenesis and Transgenerational Transmission of Carcinogenic Risk: From Genetics to Epigenetics.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018
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7. The failure of rodent carcinogenesis as a model for Man.Toxicology research · 2018
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8. Inequality in genetic cancer risk suggests bad genes rather than bad luck.Nature communications · 2017
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9. Mathematical Modeling Links Pregnancy-Associated Changes and Breast Cancer Risk.Cancer research · 2017
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10. Replicative random mutations as an unproven cause of cancer: A technical comment.Molecular and clinical oncology · 2016
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11. The dangers of hazards.Toxicology research · 2016
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12. Is bad luck the main cause of cancer?Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2015
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13. "Bad Luck Mutations": DNA Mutations Are not the Whole Answer to Understanding Cancer Risk.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society
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14. God does not play dice: Looking back from modern laboratories to the Himalayan valleys.Ancient science of life
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Corrections and comments

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  Cancer etiology. Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions.2015

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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