Published on
27/07/2026 - 18:27 GMT+2
Many smokers never develop lung cancer, while some lifelong non-smokers do. Likewise, not everyone exposed to sunlight develops skin cancer.
A new study published in Nature could help explain a longstanding mystery in cancer biology: why people exposed to similar environmental risks often experience dramatically different outcomes.
“This study gives us a fascinating hint that our inherited genes might have a big influence on the way that cancers develop after DNA damage,” Cancer Research UK research information lead, Sam Godfrey, said in a press release.
