Why is cancer not more common? A changing microenvironment may help to explain why, and suggests strategies for anti-cancer therapy

One of the great unsolved puzzles in cancer biology is not why cancers occur, but rather explaining why so few cancers occur compared with the theoretical number that could occur, given the number of progenitor cells in the body and the normal mutation rate. We hypothesized that a contributory expla...

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Published in:Open Biology
Main Authors: Xiaowei Jiang, Ian P. M. Tomlinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2020-04-01
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsob.190297