Minimizing the risk of cancer: tissue architecture and cellular replication limits

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Normal somatic cells are capable of only a limited number of divisions, which prevents unlimited cell proliferation and the onset of tumours. Cancer cells find ways to circumvent this obstacle, typically by expressing the enzyme telomerase and less often by alternative recombination strategies. Given this fundamental link between cellular replication limits and cancer, it is important to understand how a tissue's...

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