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Defining Resistance and Tolerance to Cancer.
Cell reports - 3 Nov 2015
Dillman Adler R, Schneider David S
Abstract excerpt
There are two ways to maintain fitness in the face of infection: resistance is a host's ability to reduce microbe load and disease tolerance is the ability of the host to endure the negative health effects of infection. Resistance and disease tolerance should be applicable to any insult to the host and have been explored in depth with regards to infection but have not been examined in the context of cancer. Here,...
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