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Accelerated geroncogenesis in hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndrome.
Oncotarget - 15 Mar 2016
Menendez Javier A, Folguera-Blasco Núria, Cuyàs Elisabet, Fernández-Arroyo Salvador, Joven Jorge, Alarcón Tomás
Abstract excerpt
The geroncogenesis hypothesis postulates that the decline in metabolic cellular health that occurs naturally with aging drives a "field effect" predisposing normal tissues for cancer development. We propose that mutations in the cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1/2 might trigger "accelerated geroncogenesis" in breast and ovarian epithelia. By speeding up the rate at which the metabolic threshold becomes...
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