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Multistep carcinogenesis: a chain reaction of aneuploidizations.
Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) - 1 Jan 2000
Duesberg Peter, Li Ruhong
Abstract excerpt
Carcinogenesis is a multistep process in which new, parasitic and polymorphic cancer cells evolve from a single, normal diploid cell. This normal cell is converted to a prospective cancer cell, alias "initiated", either by a carcinogen or spontaneously. The initiated cell typically does not have a new distinctive phenotype yet, but evolves spontaneously--over months to decades--to a clinical cancer. The cells of...
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