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IT is reasonable to think that there are stimuli and opportunities in every human life which result in a cancerous transformation of some cells. The main factor in the progress of these cells to the clinical tumour stage might be a deficiency in the growth-controlling defensive mechanism. To demonstrate the possible existence of such factors we have studied since 1955 the effect of human serum on different cells in cell culture1.
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PENTTINEN, K., SAXÉN, E. Growth-Controlling Action of Human Serum in Cell Culture. Nature 184, 1570–1571 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841570b0
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