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Cancer (r)evolution

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Cancer evolution is central to poor outcomes of cancer therapies, enabling tumour progression and the acquisition of drug resistance. Joint efforts of evolutionary biologists, oncologists and cancer researchers are necessary to understand the principles of cancer evolution and to derive therapeutic strategies that can control it.

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  1. Translational Oncogenomics Laboratory, Centre for Evolution and Cancer, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW3 6JB, UK

    Katharina von Loga & Marco Gerlinger

  2. Gastrointestinal Cancer Unit, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, SW3 6JJ, UK

    Marco Gerlinger

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von Loga, K., Gerlinger, M. Cancer (r)evolution. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 1051–1052 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0252-1

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