Cancer causation: the Darwinian downside of past success?

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Causal mechanisms in all diseases are diverse and multifactorial, but medical scientists, as pragmatists, inevitably focus on limited or circumscribed components of pathogenetic puzzles. In cancer, epidemiologists have traditionally sought to incriminate exposures; geneticists uncover inherited susceptibility; and molecular biologists deconstruct the proximal mechanisms of cell transformation. Molecular...

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