“Cancer is usually just bad luck.” Why doctors are sometimes powerless despite medical progress, such as Margriet Hermans

Bad luck, a bad lottery ticket. This is what Margriet Hermans (72) heard about the rare but very aggressive cancer that killed her after just one month. Despite all the medical advances, doctors and researchers are still powerless against certain cancers. Is such a diagnosis really ‘bad luck’? And can you prevent it? “The older you get, the greater the chance of that fatal bad luck,” says cancer specialist Filip Lardon (University of Antwerp).

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