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Cell Competition Spurs Selection of Aggressive Cancer Cells.
Trends in cancer - 1 Sept 2020
Parker Taylor, Madan Esha, Gupta Kartik, Moreno Eduardo, Gogna Rajan
Abstract excerpt
Within heterogeneous tumors, cancer cells are constantly interacting. Cell competition (CC) is a fitness-based selection mechanism that results in increased proliferation of discrete populations at the expense of their less fit neighbors. CC-based selection of fit cells may also drive selection of the most aggressive cancer cells.
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