The Role of Genetic Counseling in Gynecological Oncology


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ISSN 2577-5790
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OBM Genetics , Volume 3 , Issue 4 (2019)
Pages: 143
Published: April 2020
(This book is a printed edition that was published in OBM Genetics)
Cover Story: Cancer is probably caused by the very common chromosome mis-segregation at cell division. The organism has at least five mechanisms to prevent that mis-segregation damage develops into cancer. The mechanisms are tetraploidization, cell division arrest, apoptosis, elimination by the immune system, and prevention of division of macrophage/precancer cell fusions. View this paper.
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