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Two stage model for carcinogenesis: number and size distributions of premalignant clones in longitudinal studies.
Mathematical biosciences - 1 Jan 1999
Dewanji A, Goddard M J, Krewski D, Moolgavkar S H
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The two stage clonal expansion model of carcinogenesis provides a convenient biologically based framework for the description of toxicologic and epidemiologic data on carcinogenesis. Under this model, a cancer cell is generated following the occurrence of two critical mutations in a single stem cell. Initiated cells that have sustained the first mutation undergo a stochastic birth-death process resulting in...
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