Scientists figure out how many mutations it takes for healthy cells to turn cancerous
Just a handful of mutations – between one and ten – are required for the cancerous cells to emerge. Approximate number of driver mutations needed to cause cancer by area of the body. Image credits: The Sanger Institute. If you’d carry out a comparison between healthy and cancerous tissues, you’d see thousands of differences (mutations). But…
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