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Nothing in cancer makes sense except…

Paraphrasing Dobzhansky’s famous dictum, I discuss how interrogating cancer through the lens of evolution has transformed our understanding of its development, causality and treatment resistance. The emerging picture of cancer captures its extensive diversity and therapeutic resilience, highlighting...

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Autor principal: Greaves, Mel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5822549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29466995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0493-8
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spelling pubmed-58225492018-02-26 Nothing in cancer makes sense except… Greaves, Mel BMC Biol Review Paraphrasing Dobzhansky’s famous dictum, I discuss how interrogating cancer through the lens of evolution has transformed our understanding of its development, causality and treatment resistance. The emerging picture of cancer captures its extensive diversity and therapeutic resilience, highlighting the need for more innovative approaches to control. BioMed Central 2018-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5822549/ /pubmed/29466995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0493-8 Text en © Greaves et al. 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5822549/
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