A 43-year-old man comes to the physician for a painless lateral neck mass that has waxed and waned over the past year. He has no past medical history. Vitals are within normal limits. Biopsy and cytologic analysis shows a t(14;18). Which of the following best explains the pathogenesis of this patient’s condition?
Anti-apoptotic molecule
Defective recombinational double-stranded DNA repair
EGFR tyrosine kinase
Oncogenic tyrosine kinase
Transcription factor
