Abstract
Most, if not all, human tumours
develop through a succession of
genetic and epigenetic changes that
confer increasingly neoplastic (cancer-like)
characteristics on cells. Indeed, this multistep
process has been likened to darwinian
evolution within the microcosm of living
tissues, in which the units of selection are
individual cells. A cell that possesses advantageous
characteristics (ones that favour
survival and proliferation)
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