Kidney tumours

... faster?) Some cancers grow quite slowly - for example, renal cell (kidney) cancer is known to be slow growing. Presumably (?) this is because ... or the RB pathway are ubiquitous in cancer cells...virtually all human tumours deregulate either the pRB or p53 pathways and likely in most cases ...

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... for a polyomavirus, simian virus 40, in a highly select group of human tumours. How did a simian virus infect humans and is the virus a passenger ... in samples from 4 of 20 children (1 Wilms' tumor, 3 transplanted kidney samples). Sequence variation among SV40 regulatory regions ruled out ...

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