这些观察结果符合关于癌症发展的经典组合模型,比如“Vogelgram”,其中肠道细胞必须聚集一组特定的突变以实现癌症的飞跃,尽管这些突变并不按照一定顺序发生,然而2016年来自荷兰的研究人员Ruben van Boxtel及其同事通过研究发现,尽管组织中存在不同的癌症发生率,但在整个生命过程中,突变会在肝脏、大肠或小肠中以每年约40个的速度不断积累,相关研究结果表明,随着时间延续,特定数量遗传改变的简单积累会引发关于肿瘤形成和生长特性的诸多问题。
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