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A call for integrated metastatic management

Metastatic disease remains invariably fatal. Until truly curative therapies are developed, can clinical oncology benefit from lessons learned in pest management?

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I would like to thank R. A. Gatenby, J. S. Brown, K. Staňková, V. Forster and K. Pienta for providing insight and expertise that greatly improved this work.

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Cunningham, J.J. A call for integrated metastatic management. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 996–998 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0927-x

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