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Cancer: evolution within a lifetime.
Annual review of genetics - 1 Jan 2014
Gerlinger Marco, McGranahan Nicholas, Dewhurst Sally M, Burrell Rebecca A, Tomlinson Ian, Swanton Charles
Abstract excerpt
Subclonal cancer populations change spatially and temporally during the disease course. Studies are revealing branched evolutionary cancer growth with low-frequency driver events present in subpopulations of cells, providing escape mechanisms for targeted therapeutic approaches. Despite such complexity, evidence is emerging for parallel evolution of subclones, mediated through distinct somatic events converging...
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