RE: haha16 Oct 2016 19:20
Chuckie. you have to speak in context. I am talking in context of cancer.
If you speak abt DNA damage in the sense the backbone is altered (which can still be a mutation if for example a base is removed or changed), then you are speaking in the context of hydrolytic and metabolic proceses which is an entirely different field..........
We need to keep this to the context in which your original questions were specific to - cancer. Non?
If no, then say whether you are talking abt DNA mutation or DNA damage in its chemical structure sense rather than genetic code sense, but you can't talk abt both interchangeably :)