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Competing views on cancer.

Journal of biosciences - 1 Apr 2014

Sonnenschein Carlos, Soto Ana M, Rangarajan Annapoorni, Kulkarni Prakash

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Despite intense research efforts that have provided enormous insight, cancer continues to be a poorly understood disease. There has been much debate over whether the cancerous state can be said to originate in a single cell or whether it is a reflection of aberrant behaviour on the part of a 'society of cells'. This article presents, in the form of a debate conducted among the authors, three views of how the...

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PMID: 24736160
DOI: 10.1007/s12038-013-9403-y
PMCID: PMC4136489

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