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A long view of fashions in cancer research.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Aug 2005
Harris Henry
Abstract excerpt
Despite the spectacular contributions to knowledge made by molecular biology during the last half century, cancer research has not delivered an agreed explanation of how malignant tumours originate. The models assiduously investigated in molecular terms largely reflect waves of fashion, and time has revealed their inadequacy: cancer is (1) not caused by the direct action of oncogenes, (2) not fully explained by...
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