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What can evolutionary biology learn from cancer biology?
Progress in biophysics and molecular biology - 1 Oct 2021
Shapiro James A
Abstract excerpt
Detecting and treating cancer effectively involves understanding the disease as one of somatic cell and tumor macroevolution. That understanding is key to avoid triggering an adverse reaction to therapy that generates an untreatable and deadly tumor population. Macroevolution differs from microevolution by karyotype changes rather than isolated localized mutations being the major source of hereditary variation....
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