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Transmissible Tumors: Breaking the Cancer Paradigm.

Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Jan 2016

Ostrander Elaine A, Davis Brian W, Ostrander Gary K

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Transmissible tumors are those that have transcended the bounds of their incipient hosts by evolving the ability to infect another individual through direct transfer of cancer cells, thus becoming parasitic cancer clones. Coitus, biting, and scratching are transfer mechanisms for the two primary species studied, the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) and the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). Canine...

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PMID: 26686413
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2015.10.001
PMCID: PMC4698198

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