Multi-hit Vogelstein carcinogenesis model

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Pathology subtree

Knudson 1971 / Vogelstein 1988: cancer requires sequential acquisition of k driver mutations; cumulative incidence I(t) ∝ t^{k-1} from Armitage-Doll multi-stage model. Predicts age-incidence power-law observed for colorectal/lung/breast…

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