Multiple mutations in human cancers.

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Increasing evidence indicates that most human cancers contain multiple mutations. The exact number of mutations, their origin, and types remain to be determined. An over-riding question is whether the multiple mutations that accumulate in cancers is rate-limiting for the carcinogenic process. In this review we consider the argument that the large numbers of mutations routinely reported in human cancers cannot be...

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