Locally growing malignant brain tumors provide a reasonable starting point for developing targeted strategies of anti-cancer therapy (pages 1354–1368).
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Martuza, R. Act locally, think globally. Nat Med 3, 1323 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1297-1323
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