Accumulation of genetic defects during astrocytoma progression.

doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19920915)70:4+<1788::aid-cncr2820701621>3.0.co;2-l

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Accumulation of genetic defects during astrocytoma progression.

Cancer - 15 Sept 1992

Cavenee W K

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BACKGROUND: The development of human cancer generally is thought to entail a series of events that cause a progressively more malignant phenotype. This hypothesis predicts that tumor cells of the ultimate stage will carry each of the events; cells of the penultimate stage will carry each of the e...

Topics

Alleles
Astrocytoma
Chromosome Aberrations
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genotype
Glioblastoma
Humans
Models, Biological
Osteosarcoma
Retinoblastoma

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