The idea that cancer is fundamentally a process of somatic cell evolution was first advocated in the 1970s ... that will interrogate cancer afresh using evolutionary principles derived from ecology, ...

In a new UCLA-led study, investigators shed light on the intricate processes underlying cancer evolution and define the ...

However, it rarely occurs in other cancer types, thus highlighting the need for large-scale analysis of rare cancers to identify the distinct mutations that underpin their evolution.