What are cancer genes, and how do they upset cell behaviour?

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Some of the cellular changes underlying the presentation of cancer in a patient can already be understood in terms of mutations affecting specific gene functions. So far, only a few of the mutated genes responsible for carcinogenesis have been identified and these are chiefly involved in deregulation of cell growth rather than with the processes of invasion and metastasis. Proto-oncogenes are important cellular...

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