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Field cancerization, clonality, and epithelial stem cells: the spread of mutated clones in epithelial sheets.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Jan 1999
Garcia S B, Park H S, Novelli M, Wright N A
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There has been considerable debate about the origin of human tumours, whether they arise from a single cell and are clonal populations or whether there needs to be some sort of co-operativity between cells for the neoplastic process to begin. Current theories subscribe to the clonal view, where a series of mutations in one cell begins a process of selection and clonal evolution leading to the development of the...
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