Cancer as a mechanism of hypermutation.

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The highly structured mechanisms of cancers, their tendency to occur as a response to environmental stress, and the existence of oncogenes, suggest that neoplasticity may represent more than a biological disfunction. It is proposed that cancer exists as a phylogenetic mechanism serving to promote "hyperevolution", albeit at the expense of the ontogeny, that is similar to a process recently discovered in bacterial...

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