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Could stroma contribute to field cancerization?
Medical hypotheses - 1 Jul 2010
Ge Lin, Meng Wenxia, Zhou Hongmei, Bhowmick Neil
Abstract excerpt
The common oral diseases as well as oral cancer have the characteristic of field cancerization or field effect. Field cancerization, characterized by phenotypic and genetic changes in the neighboring cells of the frank cancer cells, is a clinical phenomenon first found in head and neck cancers. F...
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