| Title |
The biological sense of cancer: a hypothesis
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, December 2006
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-4682-3-43 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Raúl A Ruggiero, Oscar D Bustuoabad |
| Abstract |
Most theories about cancer proposed during the last century share a common denominator: cancer is believed to be a biological nonsense for the organism in which it originates, since cancer cells are believed to be ones evading the rules that control normal cell proliferation and differentiation. In this essay, we have challenged this interpretation on the basis that, throughout the animal kingdom, cancer seems to arise only in injured organs and tissues that display lost or diminished regenerative ability. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 38 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 13 | 31% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 5 | 12% |
| Unknown | 5 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 18 | 43% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 12% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 10% |
| Chemistry | 2 | 5% |
| Mathematics | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 10% |
| Unknown | 8 | 19% |
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