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A model for the spread of premalignant cells in the colonic mucosa. Initiation occurs in a basally located stem cell that undergoes biased genetic drift to rapidly occupy the whole crypt. 112 The wholly mutated crypt then undergoes an accelerated rate of crypt fission to occupy a large area of the colon (field cancerization)
