The 2 main forces driving cancer evolution:
1. mutation. new progeny arise, increasing diversity
2. selection. populations with higher fitness (capacity to reproduce) overtake the other lineages by frequency
Tumors evolve via an iteratively malignant dance among these two.
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Simona Cristea
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