The Somatic Mutation Theory of Cancer

In the early 2000s, scientists thought they had cured cancer. They used a two hit hypothesis to explain why some cancers were more aggressive than others. The somatic mutation theory turned out to not be so clear-cut after sequencing 33,000 samples for colon cancer.

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