The effect of tissue-specific growth patterns of target stem cells on the spectrum of tumours resulting from multistage tumorigenesis.

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A multistage mathematical model of tumorigenesis has been developed to explore the effects of target cell growth pattern on the proportions of tumours deriving from different tissues (the tumour spectrum). Analytical modelling techniques have shown that the effect of the target cell growth pattern on the tumour spectrum also depends on the number of stages (gene mutations) necessary for malignant change in cells...

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