title: A simplified approach to the statistical incidence of myeloid and erythroid leukemias in humans.
abstract: Using order parameters from field theory, the paper rationalizes the statistics of myeloid and erythroid leukemias more satisfactorily than the random mutation hypothesis. Adapted to B- and plasma cell lineages, the same arguments conceptualize the statistics of related malignancies congruently to clinical findings.
authors.affiliation: USC Medical School, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA.
authors.forename: G T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Matioli
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D019070:Cell Lineage; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D004915:Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology