Open AccessCausality and Chance in the Development of Cancer
Author(s) -
James E. East,
Simon Travis,
Simon J. Leedham
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmc1509651
Subject(s) - causality (physics) , cancer , psychology , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics
In addition to heredity and the environment, chance may also play a role in the development of cancer. Because the acquisition of mutations is stochastic with each cell division, organs with more stem-cell replication seem to develop cancer more often.
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