Population genetics of tumours.

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The available evidence suggests that cancer is essentially a somatic evolutionary process involving a series of mutations. Each mutation gives some advantage to a selected clone, and expansion then occurs within that selected clone. The advantages are associated with both growth rate and factors leading to independent growth. The aim of this paper is first to give some background information on genetic changes in...

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