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376                                              SUBJECT INDEX

                              incidence, see age-specific incidence  mitogenesis and cancer risk, 62,
                              initiator-promoter, see multistage  173, 175, 190, 191, 193, 194,
                                 progression                      196–98
                                                               mitotic age, 293–94, 296–302
                              Japan, cancer incidence in, 314–33  mortality
                                                                 late-life plateau, 202–9
                              Kaplan-Meier plots, 28, 155–57     leading causes, 202–9
                              knockout genotypes, see laboratory  multistage model of, 206–9
                                 studies                         See also aging
                                                               mosaicism, 304–8
                              laboratory studies                 field cancerization, 304, 307–8
                                carcinogen application, 29, 37, 38,  skin pigmentation, 240, 304, 306
                                 61–63, 139–41, 168–70           See also Blaschko, lines of, devel-
                                comparisons between genotypes,    opment, mutations during
                                 28, 154–60, 312               multilineage progression, 37, 57,
                                See also skin                     289–92, 302–4
                              landscaper genes, 71             multistage progression
                                See also stroma                  alternative pathways, 43–49, 57,
                              leukemia, 35, 56, 90, 252, 319, 320,  93, 116–20
                                 327, 330                        definition, 37–38
                              life table aging rate              history of theory, 59–80, 90–92
                                compared with log-log accelera-  initiator-promoter,  two-stage
                                 tion, 138                        model, 37, 38, 62, 75, 179
                              liposarcoma, 221, 223              parallel lines of progression, 93,
                              liver cancer, 25, 33, 35, 95, 325–27,  100–3, 110, 117, 124, 126, 128,
                                 333                              130, 153, 187, 188, 233
                              loss of heterozygosity (LOH), 43, 44,  rate-limiting step, 38, 50, 52, 55,
                                 48, 50, 303, 306                 63, 67, 71, 75, 80, 88, 93, 111,
                              lung cancer, 29, 35, 76, 156, 159,  121, 123–29, 159, 161, 179, 194,
                                 168, 171, 174, 180–90, 252, 315,  198, 207, 208, 216, 220, 221,
                                 316, 319, 320, 323, 324, 327,    233, 311
                                 328, 330, 333                   variation in transition rates, 103–
                                in nonsmokers, 29, 30, 90, 181,   13, 130, 138
                                 182, 189, 248                   See also apoptosis
                                See also smoking               mutation
                                                                 balance against selection, 237–42
                              melanoma, 35, 89, 263, 319, 320,   hypermutation (mutator), 51, 72–
                                 327, 330                         74, 78–80, 200
                              metastasis, 36–38, 42, 57          to pathway, 40, 46, 199, 200,
                                basement membrane, breaking, 54   220–22, 240, 244, 246
                              methylation, see epigenetic change  rate, 45, 46, 66, 71–75, 77, 79,
                              microsatellite                      88, 146, 149, 158–60, 237–42,
                                as lineage marker, 294–95         265–69, 275–76
                              microsatellite instability (MSI), 40,  spectrum, 44, 45, 47, 191–94
                                 43, 46, 199                   myc, 40, 52, 244
                              mismatch repair (MMR), see DNA
                                 repair                        natural selection, 132, 135, 234–42,
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