Do not multiply entities without necessity! (“Occam’s razor”)
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The opinion is presented according to which the “bad luck” hypothesis (Tomasetti, C., and Vogelstein, B. (2015) Science, 347, 78–81), which has recently received experimental confirmation, has the right to exist, and its criticisms are largely unfounded.
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Original Russian Text © A. V. Lichtenstein, 2017, published in Biokhimiya, 2017, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 181-182.
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Lichtenstein, A.V. Response to comments by V. N. Manskikh: “Do external or internal factors lead to tumor development? It is still unknown”. Biochemistry Moscow 82, 86–87 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006297917010102
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