Testing randomness for cancer risk
Tissues and Organs
2015-08-20 v1
Abstract
There are numerous stochastic models for cancer risk for a given tissue. Many rely on the following two hypotheses. 1. There is a fixed probability that a given cell division will eventually lead to a cancerous cell. 2. Cell divisions are nefarious or not independently of each other. We show that recent data on cancer risk and number of stem divisions is consistent with hypotheses 1 and 2.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.04453,
title = {Testing randomness for cancer risk},
author = {Rinaldo B. Schinazi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.04453},
year = {2015}
}