Cancer models and cancer genetics.

doi:10.1097/00001648-199011000-00012

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Cancer models and cancer genetics.

Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Nov 1990

Weiss K M

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There have been many attempts to develop stochastic multistage models for cancer. The models relate hypothesized biological processes occurring at the cellular level to the occurrence of tumors at the experimental or epidemiologic level of individuals in a population. The existing models fit a va...

Topics

Humans
Models, Biological
Mutation
Neoplasms
Phenotype
Stochastic Processes

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