Cancer Is to Embryology as Mutation Is to Genetics: Hypothesis of the Cancer as Embryological Phenomenon

Figure 1

Differences between mouse and human embryos. Mouse embryo has the shape of an egg cylinder (showing the apposition the epiblast and visceral endoderm tissues) and human embryo has the shape of a flat disc with two layers of cells known as epiblast and hypoblast. VE: visceral endoderm. Adapted from Irie et al., [39].