Reexamining How Cancer Cells Exploit the Body's Metabolic Resources.

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A key feature of multicellular life is the sharing of nutritional resources by all cells of the organism. In animals, the allocation of nutrients to individual cells is not determined in a cell-autonomous fashion. Instead, growth factor and hormonal signaling pathways have evolved to regulate cellular nutrient uptake, which prevents individual cells from parasitizing the organism's metabolic reserves. Cancer is a...

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