The Age Distribution of Cancer and a Multi-stage Theory of Carcinogenesis
British Journal of CancerPublished 1 March 1954Open access
P. Armitage, Richard Doll
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Two hypotheses about the mechanism of carcinogenesis have been put forward, which have been derived from analysis of cancer mortahty statistics, which considered that cancer in youth might be affected by special factors which were unhkely to operate at later ages.
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