Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, UK.
Biol Direct. 2010 Apr 20;5:19; discussion 19. doi: 10.1186/1745-6150-5-19.
The biology of cancer is critically reviewed and evidence adduced that its development can be modelled as a somatic cellular Darwinian evolutionary process. The evidence for involvement of genomic instability (GI) is also reviewed. A variety of quasi-mechanistic models of carcinogenesis are reviewed, all based on this somatic Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis; in particular, the multi-stage model of Armitage and Doll (Br. J. Cancer 1954:8;1-12), the two-mutation model of Moolgavkar, Venzon, and Knudson (MVK) (Math. Biosci. 1979:47;55-77), the generalized MVK model of Little (Biometrics 1995:51;1278-1291) and various generalizations of these incorporating effects of GI (Little and Wright Math. Biosci. 2003:183;111-134; Little et al. J. Theoret. Biol. 2008:254;229-238).
癌症生物学被批判性地回顾,有证据表明其发展可以被模拟为体细胞达尔文进化过程。也回顾了基因组不稳定性(GI)的证据。还回顾了各种准机械致癌模型,这些模型都基于这种体细胞达尔文进化假说;特别是,阿特奇和多尔(Armitage and Doll)的多阶段模型(Br. J. Cancer 1954:8;1-12),穆尔加夫卡尔(Moolgavkar)、文曾(Venzon)和克努森(Knudson)的双突变模型(MVK)(Math. Biosci. 1979:47;55-77),利特尔(Little)的广义 MVK 模型(Biometrics 1995:51;1278-1291),以及这些模型的各种推广,这些模型纳入了 GI 的影响(Little and Wright Math. Biosci. 2003:183;111-134;Little et al. J. Theoret. Biol. 2008:254;229-238)。