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Environment, genome and cancer.
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie III, Sciences de la vie - 1 Dec 2001
Wang L, Chen S J
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Cancer is one of the most serious diseases that threaten human being today. To some degree, it is a genetic disease but environmental and other nongenetic factors clearly play a role in many stages of neoplastic process. Genetic factors by themselves are thought to explain only about 5% of all cancer. The remainder can be attributed to external, 'environment' factors that act in conjunction with both genetic and...
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