Cancer cells vary; they compete; the fittest survive. Patrick Goymer reports on how evolutionary biology can be applied to cancer — and what good it might do.
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Goymer, P. Natural selection: The evolution of cancer. Nature 454, 1046–1048 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4541046a
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