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Cancer: the evolved consequence of a destabilized genome
22 Oct 2001
Abstract excerpt
The genome is a stable repository of vastly intricate genetic information developed over eons of evolution; this information is replicated at the highest fidelity and expressed within each cell at the highest selectivity. Non-leukemia cancers break this standard; the intricate genetic information qualitatively and progressively deteriorates, resulting in a somatic Darwinian free-for-all. In a process lasting...
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