Preventive Evolutionary Medicine of Cancers
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Preventive Evolutionary Medicine of Cancers
Evolutionary theory predicts that once an individual reaches an age of sufficiently low Darwinian fitness, (s)he will have reduced chances of keeping cancerous lesions in check. While we clearly need to better understand the emergence of precursor states and early malignancies as well as their mitigation by the microenvironment and tissue architecture, we argue that lifestyle changes and preven...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolutionary Applications
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1752-4571,1752-4571
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12033