Peter Attia· MD
look there's actually just a component of really bad luck here um you know there are mutations that occur every Cancer begins with a mutation and most of those are somatic mutations that means that most of those are mutations that occur in cells that were developed normally right so these are your your germ line the cells you inherited were normal cells but then mutations were Acquired and mutations fall into one of two categories these are either mutations that are tumor promoting so oncogenic mutations or they are mutations of tumor suppression so we have genes that are set out to suppress cancer and if you get a mutation in one of those the body loses the ability to suppress cancer and then we get mutation in genes that turn cancer on and again a number of these are inherited but many of them most of them are acquired and the what is vexing us still and again I think the best working hypothesis is that um bad luck plays a lot of role in that