All cancers are due to some interaction between genetic risk factors and the environment. There's sort of a bifurcation where you get germline mutations and then you get these somatic mutations. "The people who think cancer is a genetic disease never, never addressed that fact," he says.
Thomas Seyfried, PhD is a preeminent cancer expert and professor in the department of biology at Boston College. He received a PhD in 1976 in genetics and neurochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, followed by a postdoctoral degree from Yale University in the field of neurochemistry and genetics.
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