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Pediatric molecular oncology. Past as prologue to the future.
Cancer - 15 May 1993
Knudson A G
Abstract excerpt
The great successes in the treatment of childhood cancers have been followed in recent years with a new understanding of the molecular genetic abnormalities that underlie their origin. For some cancers these genetic changes are in oncogenes; in others, they are in antioncogenes, or tumor suppressor genes. Initiating aberrations in the former are associated characteristically with chromosomal translocations, the...
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