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Is There a Mutation in Cancer?
Cancer has a mutation that renders it incapable of listening to normal cell signalling. And is the idea that those those mutations were acquiredi wouldn't call them mutations, they would call them defects. We sequence the entire genom of five different independently derived cancers from mouse and we didn't find a single genetic abnormality which could lead to cancer. So how do you prevent cancer? You prevent cancer by keeping your mito conjurer healthy. How do you do that? Well, if you can avoid those risk factors, mostly from the environment,. Every one of those things can damage respiration in a population of cells then leading to cancer.