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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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Autores principales: Daoust, Simon P, Fahrig, Lenore, Martin, Amanda E, Thomas, Frédéric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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