Environmental Health
Research from L. Luzzatto and Co-Researchers in the Area of Environmental Health Described
Published in Cancer Weekly, June 21st, 2011
2011 JUN 21 -- According to a study from Florence, Italy, "The transformation of a normal cell into a cancer cell takes place through a sequence of a small number of discrete genetic events, somatic mutations: thus, cancer can be regarded properly as a genetic disease of somatic cells. The analogy between evolution of organisms and evolution of cell populations is compelling: in both cases what drives change is mutation, but it is Darwinian selection that enables clones that have a growth advantage to expand, thus providing a larger target size for the next mutation to hit."
"The search for molecular lesions in tumors has taken on a new dimension thanks to...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-06-21)
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