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Facts in cancer genetics.
Patient education and counseling - 1 Jan 2000
Cornelisse C J, Devilee P
Abstract excerpt
During the past decade molecular biology and molecular genetics have greatly increased our understanding of the basic mechanisms in cancer development. The essential outcome of these molecular studies is that cancer can be considered as a genetic disease of cells. Both the non-hereditary (sporadic) cancers, as well as the hereditary forms of cancer are caused by genetic accidents that perturb the complex and...
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