Is Bad Luck the Main Cause of Cancer?

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Weinberg, C R ^a   Zaykin, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGEN; RADON;

CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIVISION; DEATH; DNA REPLICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FATALITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVIEW; STEM CELL; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CELL DIVISION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938152776     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djv125     Document Type: Review

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