The Hallmarks of Cancer
What makes cancer….cancer?
8 min readFeb 8, 2018
To understand cancer as a whole, rather than as individual cancers, it is useful to find out those traits that are common to all cancers. One of the most widely cited papers in oncology is ‘Hallmarks of Cancer’ which initially listed 6 hallmarks and then updated in 2011 with two more. This is a crucial step to defining cancer’s common features — these 8 hallmarks. Despite…
