How many mutations are required to produce a human cancer cell?

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Biology - General, Basics, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: The widespread occurance of cancer and its apparent lack of a cause has led to a plethora of myths spanning from a "cancer personality" in the 1970's to mobile phones today. The dissertation introduces some of the theoretical principles of cancer which lifts the veil o...