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Cancer metabolism in breadth and depth

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Recent advances in understanding the altered metabolism of tumor cells are yielding new therapeutic leads.

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Figure 1: Profiling of human cancers from different tissues reveals that some metabolic genes undergo specific expression changes in certain classes of tumors.

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  1. Matthew G. H. Chun and Reuben J. Shaw are at the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA,

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  2. Reuben Shaw is also at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA.,

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