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Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer and lost cell polarity: a short path to cancer.
Future oncology (London, England) - 1 Apr 2008
Humar Bostjan, Guilford Parry
Abstract excerpt
The mechanisms that underlie the initiation of human cancer are poorly understood. Here, we describe the development of hereditary diffuse gastric cancer and argue that it arises from the disruption of the regenerative processes that are inherent to all epithelial tissues. This model supports the cancer stem cell hypothesis, in which tumors contain a subpopulation of cells with the key stem cell characteristics...
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