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Lack of Correlation between Stem-Cell Proliferation and Radiation- or Smoking-Associated Cancer Risk

BACKGROUND: A recent paper by Tomasetti and Vogelstein (Science 2015 347 78–81) suggested that the variation in natural cancer risk was largely explained by the total number of stem-cell divisions, and that most cancers arose by chance. They proposed an extra-risk score as way of distinguishing the...

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Autores principales: Little, Mark P., Hendry, Jolyon H., Puskin, Jerome S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4816383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27031507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150335