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How similar are Circulating Tumor Cells and Cancer Stem Cells?
Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) are linked with metastasis and their presence can be used to indicate the onset of metastatic cancer. Likewise, the Cancer Stem Cell (CSC) hypothesis suggests that ...
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Do larger multicellular organisms have an increased risk of mutation and thus cancer?
So I was thinking that if each cell has P(X) of becoming cancerous, then the chance of cancer is 1-((1-P(X))^n) where n is the number of cells in the organism.
Since larger organisms have more cells ...
