The two "hit" and multiple "hit" theories of carcinogenesis.
The two "hit" and multiple "hit" theories of carcinogenesis.
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DOI:
10.1038/bjc.1969.41
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发表时间:
1969-06
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Ashley, D J
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作者:
Ashley, D J
NORDLING (1953) examined the age specific mortality for cancer of all sites from the published statistics of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Norway and noted that the tumour death rate rose with the sixth power of the age. He suggested the carcinogenesis might depend on a series of mutations in the affected cells and that the clinical manifestation was dependent on the cumulative effect of this series of mutations. Stocks (1963) examined the mortality rates for gastric cancer in males for a series of cohorts and reached the conclusion that the pattern observed could be explained on the basis that there was a series of 5 mutations and a preclinicaldevelopment period of about 17 years. Armitage and Doll (1954) made a detailed analysis of the death rates for a number of tumours and showed how the hypothesis of a small number of random discrete changes in cell structure and function could account for the observable steady rise in cancer mortality with age. Three years later (Armitage and Doll, 1957) they published an alternative analysis which suggested that the observed death rates could be explained on the basis of a" two hit" theory; that only two changes in cell function, the first involving enhancement ofthe rate of multiplication of cells and the second release from control, were necessary. The relevant mathematical expressions which Armitage and Doll derived were: