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 e...

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Main Authors: Mark P Little, Jolyon H Hendry, Jerome S Puskin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4816383?pdf=render