Mutator/hypermutable fetal/juvenile metakaryotic stem cells and human colorectal carcinogenesis.
Adult age-specific colorectal cancer incidence rates increase exponentially from maturity, reach a maximum, then decline in extreme old age. Armitage and Doll (1957) postulated that the exponential increase resulted from n mutations occurring throughout adult life in normal cells at risk that initia...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Oncology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2013.00267/full |