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A New Mathematical Formula For Cancer Progression
Tumor progression can now be mapped less to mathematical standards and
more to individual patients according to a new study by researchers at
Harvard
and Johns Hopkins Universities. The study, publishing in PLoS
Computational Biology on November 9, 2007, provides a new paradigm in
calculating tumor
development, showing that it appears to be driven by mutations in many
genes.
Our understanding of the progression of cancer has long been based on
streamlined models where cancer is driven by mutations in only a few
genes.
Niko Beerenwinkel et al. show how tumor progression can be driven by
hundreds of genes. As many as 20 different mutated genes might be
responsible
for driving an individual tumor's development.
Beerenwinkel et al. used a case of colon cancer to derive their results.
Cancer progression proceeds stochastically from a single genetically
altered
cell to billions of invasive cells through a series of clonal expansions.
According to their model, cancer progression is driven by mutations in
many
genes, each of which confers only a small selective advantage. It was
found that the time it takes for a benign tumor to transform into a
malignant
tumor is dominated by the selective advantage per mutation and by the
number of cancer genes, whereas tumor size and mutation rate have smaller
impacts.
This new model could help explain the large amount of variation between
individual tumors that has long puzzled researchers and clinicians. The
increasing amount of high-throughput molecular data that is being
generated has resulted in new challenges for understanding complex
biosystems such
as cancer. New mathematical models like this one can provide unique
insights that simplify interpretation and at the same time answer
important
biomedical questions.
CITATION: Beerenwinkel N, Antal T, Dingli D, Traulsen A, Kinzler KW, et
al. (2007) Genetic progression and the waiting time to cancer. PLoS Comput
Biol 3(11): e225. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030225
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