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Ask a Cancer Researcher: Why do some mutations cause cancer, yet others don’t?

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In this Ask a Cancer Researcher video, Dr. Philip Awadalla, Director, Computational Biology at OICR, explains the role of genetic mutations in the formation of cancer.

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