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Published on: November 13, 2012
[Molecular origins of cancer and future cancer therapy]
1The Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing 210008, China.
Abstract:
The accumulation of genomic and epigenetic changes gives rise to the tumorigenesis and progression. Currently, clonal evolution model and cancer stem cell model, two leading theories of caner origin, are becoming complementary to one another to explain the nature of tumor heterogeneity. Precision medicine that is based on the next generation sequencing and big data describes the phenomena of tumor heterogeneity more precisely. The future cancer therapy may need more comprehensive and dynamical understandings of the distinct subclones of tumor and follow the trends of cancer evolution.
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