An ecological approach to understanding differential cancer susceptibility in organs

Why is there a large difference in susceptibility to cancer among the different body organs? Why, for instance, is it rare to find cancer in the small bowel and heart, but common in the colon and breast? And why, although it often produces benign fibroid tutors, is cancer in the uterus a fairly rare event? […]

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