Going beyond the genetic view of cancer

Kendall et al. recently reported in PNAS novel oncogene (co) amplifications in human lung cancer (1). However, these changes were detected in less than 20% of the investigated specimens. Accordingly, the authors' findings (1) suggest that the majority of these tumors probably harbors frequently occurring (nongenetic) abnormalities such as epigenetic … *E-mail: ratura{at}gmx.net