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A research note regarding "Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions"
2016-11-10
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Tomasetti and Vogelstein argued that 2/3 of human cancers are due to ‘bad luck’ and that “primary prevention measures [against cancer] are not likely to be very effective”. We demonstrate that their calculations for hepatocellular carcinomas overlooked a major subset of these cancers proven to be preventable through vaccination. The problem, which is not limited to hepatocellular carcinoma, arises from the general...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 82e6c402-e136-5553-a7b0-4899666309de
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- 10.12688/f1000research.9448.2