Debunking mathematically the logical fallacy that cancer risk is just “bad luck”
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Debunking mathematically the logical fallacy that cancer risk is just “ bad luck ”
Tomasetti and Vogelstein recently proposed that the majority of variation in cancer risk among tissues is due to “bad luck,” that is, randommutations arising during DNA replication in normal noncancerous stem cells. They generalize this finding to cancer overall, claiming that “the stochastic effects of DNA replication appear to be the major contributor to cancer in humans.” We show that this c...
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عنوان ژورنال: EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2195-0008
DOI: 10.1140/epjnbp/s40366-015-0026-0