| Literature DB >> 2498254 |
T Okamoto1, Y Ohno, S Tsugane, S Watanabe, M Shimoyama, K Tajima, M Miwa, K Shimotohno.
Abstract
The age-specific occurrence of adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) was analyzed using 357 cases collected during nationwide surveys carried out between 1982 and 1985 in Japan. A simple Weibull distribution function fitted well as a model. The mode of ATL onset was log-linear in this model and the curves for males and females overlapped completely. The presence of age-dependent accumulation of leukemogenic events within human T-cell leukemia virus type 1-immortalized T cells was suggested prior to the development of ATL, and the approximate number of independent leukemogenic events in ATL is estimated to be five. This stochastic analysis supported a multi-step carcinogenesis as an appropriate model for ATL.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2498254 PMCID: PMC5917708 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1989.tb02289.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Jpn J Cancer Res ISSN: 0910-5050