Published in Cancer Weekly, January 10th, 2006
"We present a mathematical formulation to evaluate the effects of gestational mutations on cancer risk. The hazard or incidence function of cancer is expressed in terms of the Probability Generating Function (PGF) of the number of normal and mutated cells at birth," scientists in the United States reported.
"Using Filtered Poisson Process Theory, we obtain the PGF for several models for the accumulation of gestational mutations. In particular, we develop expressions for the hazard function when one or two successive mutations could...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2006-01-10)
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