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No paradox, no progress: inverse cancer comorbidity in people with other complex diseases.
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In the past 5 years, several leading groups have attempted to explain why individuals with Down's syndrome have a reduced risk of many solid tumours and an increased risk of leukaemia and testicular cancer. Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist, noted that a paradox could initiate progress. We think that the paradox of a medical disorder protecting against cancer could be formalised in a new model of inverse cancer morbidity in people with other serious diseases. In this Personal View, we review e...
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- Journal:
- Lancet. Oncology
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 604-608
- Publication date:
- 2011-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1474-5488
- ISSN:
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1470-2045
- Source identifiers:
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214392
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- English
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pubs:214392
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- pubs:214392
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