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(problem 22) if cancer is fundamentally a genetic disease, how might an environmental factor such as smoking cause cancer?
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(problem 22) if cancer is fundamentally a genetic disease, how might an environmental factor such as smoking cause cancer?

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EF factors can cause cancer by acting as a mutagen. Higher rates of mutation= inactivation of tumor repressor and conversion of photo-oncogenes to oncogenes.

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