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Cancer as a programmed death of an organism.

Biochemistry. Biokhimiia - 1 Sept 2005

Lichtenstein A V

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The hypothesis introduces the idea that there is a critical level of mutagenesis that triggers a program of organism death by means of proliferation of killer cells. Similarly to apoptosis, which is an altruistic suicidal act of a faulty cell threatening the stability of a multicellular organism, a malignant tumor is an altruistic suicide of an individual carrier of harmful alleles threatening genetic stability...

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PMID: 16266279
DOI: 10.1007/s10541-005-0224-y

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