A research note regarding "Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions" [version 1; referees: 2 approved]
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 pr...
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F1000 Research Ltd
2016-08-01
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| Online Access: | https://f1000research.com/articles/5-2044/v1 |