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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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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