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A research note regarding "Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions"
Tomasetti and Vogelstein argued that 2/3 of human cancers are due to ‘bad luck’ and that “primary prevention measures [against cancer] are not likely to be very effective”. We demonstrate that their calculations for hepatocellular carcinomas overlooked a major subset of these cancers proven to be pr...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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F1000Research
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5089134/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27853514 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9448.2 |