A simplified approach to the statistical incidence of myeloid and erythroid leukemias in humans.
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.
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USC Medical School, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA.
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