For example if an oncogene is within a cell that lacks components of the downstream signaling pathway, then it will not function as an oncogene anymore. Could this be the reason that oncogenes and tumor suppressive functions are contextual ? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24608975

Thus cancer therapeutics have to be organ specific and personalized.

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