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Healthy skin rejects cancer

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Live imaging shows that healthy skin cells surround and expel neighbours that have cancer-promoting mutations, revealing that tissues can recognize and eliminate mutant cells to prevent tumour initiation. See Letter p.334

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Figure 1: Dynamics of mutant-cell growth in the hair follicle.

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  1. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, 63110, Missouri, USA

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  2. Departments of Developmental Biology and of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine,

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