Article ; Online: Cancer: Bad Luck or Punishment?
2017 Volume 82, Issue 1, Page(s) 75–80
Abstract: Contrasting opinions on the role of extrinsic and intrinsic factors in cancer etiology (Tomasetti, C., and Vogelstein, B. (2015) Science, 347, 78-81; Wu, S., et al. (2016) Nature, 529, 43-47) variously define priorities in the war on cancer. The ... ...
Abstract | Contrasting opinions on the role of extrinsic and intrinsic factors in cancer etiology (Tomasetti, C., and Vogelstein, B. (2015) Science, 347, 78-81; Wu, S., et al. (2016) Nature, 529, 43-47) variously define priorities in the war on cancer. The correlation between the lifetime risk of several types of cancer and the total number of divisions of normal self-renewing cells revealed by the authors has given them grounds to put forward the "bad luck" hypothesis. It assumes that ~70% of cancer variability is attributed to random errors arising during DNA replication in normal, noncancerous stem cells, i.e. to internal factors, which is impossible either to expect or to prevent. This assumption caused many critical responses that emphasize, on the contrary, the defining role of extrinsic factors in cancer etiology. The analysis of epidemiological and genetic data presented in this work testifies in favor of the "bad luck" hypothesis. |
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MeSH term(s) | Animals ; DNA Replication/genetics ; DNA, Neoplasm/genetics ; DNA, Neoplasm/metabolism ; Humans ; Neoplasms/genetics ; Neoplasms/metabolism |
Chemical Substances | DNA, Neoplasm |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2017-01 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article ; Review |
ZDB-ID | 1109-5 |
ISSN | 1608-3040 ; 0006-2979 ; 0320-9717 |
ISSN (online) | 1608-3040 |
ISSN | 0006-2979 ; 0320-9717 |
DOI | 10.1134/S0006297917010084 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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