差不多一个世纪以来,医学专家们一直在尝试解释为什么结肠癌病例总是出现在某些特定的家族。他们的噩运是不是由于一些偶然的、随机的机会,比如一起受到了一些外界的或来自食物中的致癌因素的影响?抑或是他们都继承了一种不良基因使自己易感于恶性肿瘤?目前,一个由约翰·翟普金斯大学和赫尔辛基大学的科学家领导的研究小组 For almost a century, medical experts have been trying to explain why colon cancer cases always appear in certain families. Has their luck been caused by occasional, random opportunities, such as being linked to some external or food-related carcinogenic factors, or have they inherited a bad gene that makes them susceptible to malignancy? , a research team led by scientists from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Helsinki