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Metabolism and its sequelae in cancer evolution and therapy.
Cancer journal (Sudbury, Mass.) - 1 Jan 2000
Gillies Robert J, Gatenby Robert A
Abstract excerpt
Cancers progress through a series of events that can be characterized as "somatic evolution." A central premise of Darwinian evolutionary theory is that the environment imparts pressure to select for species that are most fit within that particular microenvironmental context. Furthermore, the rate of evolution is proportional to both (1) the strength of the environmental selection and (2) the phenotypic variance...
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