Ionizing radiation and hematopoietic malignancies: altering the adaptive landscape.

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Somatic evolution, which underlies tumor progression, is driven by two essential components: (1) diversification of phenotypes through heritable mutations and epigenetic changes and (2) selection for mutant clones which possess higher fitness. Exposure to ionizing radiation (IR ) is highly associated with increased risk of carcinogenesis. This link is traditionally attributed to causation of oncogenic mutations...

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