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p53 and lung cancer.
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Dec 1997
Brambilla E, Brambilla C
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The malignant transformation of pulmonary epithelial cells is the result of multistep accumulation of genetic and molecular alterations highly related to tobacco carcinogens, involving key mechanisms of proliferation and apoptosis. Clonal expansion is the net result of acceleration of cell division and inhibition of active cell death (apoptosis). Oncogene activation in lung cancer (ras, myc, autocrine growth...
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