CRISTIAN TOMASETTI
Cancer Etiology, Evolution, Early Detection and Risk Prediction
Mathematical Modeling – Biostatistics
Associate Professor
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Oncology
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
550 North Broadway, Suite 1103
Baltimore, MD 21205 USA
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 North Wolfe Street, Office E3533
Baltimore, MD 21205 USA
Education
Postdoc, Biostatistics
Harvard University & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Ph. D., Applied Mathematics
University of Maryland, College Park
Bad Luck Theory
Cristian Tomasetti and Bert Vogelstein explain their Bad Luck TheoryTwo factors are widely recognized as causing cancer: environment (E) and heredity (H).
A paper published in Science in 2015 provided evidence for a third factor: the random mistakes made when normal stem cells divide. The results in this paper showed that there was a strong correlation between the lifetime number of normal stem cell divisions in an organ and its lifetime cancer incidence. This contributes to explain why certain cancer types have a much higher incidence than others....
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READ THE ARTICLEYour Body Acquires Trillions of New Mutations Every Day
The Atlantic - 3 weeks ago“It sounds very scary,” acknowledges Cristian Tomasetti, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins. “Fortunately for us,” he says, “the great majority of places where these mutations may hit...
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GenomeWeb - 2 weeks agoBut as Johns Hopkins' Cristian Tomasetti most of these mutations don't crop up in sensitive spots. Some might manage to occur in, for instance, an oncogene, and might make those cells better...
READ THE ARTICLENew blood test could help detect common cancers
Irish Times - 4 months agoCristian Tomasetti, associate professor of oncology and biostatistics, said the test is unique because it looks for both mutated DNA and proteins. He said: “A novelty of our classification method...
READ THE ARTICLENew study sheds light on why cancer often strikes those with healthy lifestyles
The Hub at Johns Hopkins - 1 years agoBut it is not as well-known that each time a normal cell divides and copies its DNA to produce two new cells, it makes multiple mistakes," says Cristian Tomasetti, assistant professor of...
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