Email this article Response to comments by V. N. Manskikh: “Do external or internal factors lead to tumor development? It is still unknown”
- Authors: Lichtenstein A.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Carcinogenesis
- Issue: Vol 82, No 1 (2017)
- Pages: 86-87
- Section: Discussion
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0006-2979/article/view/151231
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006297917010102
- ID: 151231
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Abstract
The opinion is presented according to which the “bad luck” hypothesis (Tomasetti, C., and Vogelstein, B. (2015) Science, 347, 78–81), which has recently received experimental confirmation, has the right to exist, and its criticisms are largely unfounded.
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A. V. Lichtenstein
Institute of Carcinogenesis
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Email: alicht@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 115478
