Substantial contribution of extrinsic risk factors to cancer development

Recent research has highlighted a strong correlation between tissue-specific cancer risk and the lifetime number of tissue-specific stem cell divisions. Whether such correlation implies a high unavoidable intrinsic cancer risk has become a key public health debate with dissemination of the ‘bad luck...

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Main Authors: Wu, Song, Powers, Scott, Zhu, Wei, Hannun, Yusuf A
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4836858/