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Intraepithelial neoplasia, surrogate endpoint biomarkers, and cancer chemoprevention.
Journal of cellular biochemistry. Supplement - 1 Jan 1993
Boone C W, Kelloff G J
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Neoplasia is a progression of molecular, cellular, and tissue changes starting with a critical cell mutation and advancing by clonal evolution, involving further multiple mutations and expanding mutated clones. This process is characterized by five general stages: latency, focal growth of normal-appearing but disorganized cells, abnormal-appearing cells (dysplasia), microinvasion, and finally, metastasis. The two...
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