Cancer in the 21st Century: the Genomic Revolution Archives - FutureLearn

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The cancer stem cell hypothesis and the clonal evolution model

Dr Maria Karvela explains what cancer stem cells are, and discusses two theories of how cancer arises: from cancer stem cells, or by clonal evolution

The revisited hallmarks

Dr Camille Huser describes two additional hallmarks and two ‘enabling features’ of cancer. These were added to the hallmarks of cancer model in 2011.

The hallmarks of cancer

Dr Camille Huser describes six key ‘hallmarks’ of cancer.