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By genetic disease we mean that cancer is caused by oncogenes that are turned on in cancer and tumor suppressor genes that are turned off to cause cancer.
You might think that we learned about oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes from common cancers like breast cancer and prostate cancer and lung cancer, but you'd be wrong.
We learned about oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes for the first time in that itty-bitty little one percent of cancers called sarcoma.
Now, TP53 is the most important tumor suppressor gene.
It is the most frequently turned off tumor suppressor gene in almost every kind of cancer.
And those blasts from the shotgun; sounded like a pellet rifle with a sound suppressor.
Ultraviolet radiation causes specific and unique mutations in the tumor suppressor gene that produces a protein called p53.
Epigenetic processes that cause key anti-cancer genes, such as the tumor suppressor P16, to be switched off could explain the increased prevalence of lung cancer.
Genes that stimulate cell growth are called oncogenes ; those that inhibit it are called tumor suppressor genes .
When oncogenes are activated, or tumor suppressor genes disabled, cells can multiply out of control.
Tumor suppressor genes can be disabled by mutation, or by spontaneous loss during cell division.
Dozens of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes have been identified, providing targets for the development of new anti-cancer drugs.