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From forest and agro-ecosystems to the microecosystems of the human body: what can landscape ecology tell us about tumor growth, metastasis, and treatment options?
Cancer is now understood to be a process that follows Darwinian evolution. Heterogeneous populations of cancerous cells that make up the tumor inhabit the tissue ‘microenvironment’, where ecological interactions analogous to predation and competition for resources drive the somatic evolution of canc...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3567473/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23396712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.12031 |