The age incidence of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

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A mathematical model of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is presented which is based on the assumptions that: 1) malignant clones of lymphoblasts arise by spontaneous mutation; 2) this is normally prevented by repair systems which either cause intracellular DNA repair or eliminate the malignant clone; and 3) the repair systems are fallible and their performance decays at random with time. If the...

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