New view of cancer: 'Epigenetic' changes come before mutations
21st Dec 2005, 19:02 GMT
A Johns Hopkins researcher and colleagues in Sweden and at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center suggest that the traditional view of cancer as a group of diseases whose properties arise from a series of alterations within a cell's nuclear DNA may have to give way to a more complicated view. In the January issue of Nature Reviews Genetics, available online now, the scientists suggest that cancers instead begin with "epigenetic" alterations to stem cells.
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