Tag Archives: NURTURE OF CARCINOGENESIS

7. NATURE AND NURTURE OF CARCINOGENESIS: IS CANCER INHERITED OR IS IT ENVIRONMENTALLY -INDUCES?

By phrasing the question in this fashion, one can see that the paradigm to understand the cancer problem is fundamentally wrong.  Our current understanding of genetics shapes the concept that DNA, the genetic information, must interact with environmental signals in order to express that information.  In other words, the phenotype of an organism is [...]