Cancer prevention: past challenges and future directions

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Almost 70 years have passed since the molecular mechanism of carcinogenesis was hypothesized to involve multiple gene mutations. More than 1,000 cancer-related genes, including oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, accelerate carcinogenesis by altering molecular functions and gene expression through mutations and epigenetic changes and have been shown to cause multistep carcinogenesis in several organ cancers....

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