Opinion: Control vs. eradication: applying infectious disease treatment strategies to cancer.
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Gunther Jansen, Robert Gatenby, and C. Athena Aktipis Department of Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics, University of Kiel, 24118 Kiel, Germany; Institute for Advanced Study, 14193 Berlin, Germany; Cancer Biology and Evolution Program, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612; Center for Evolution and Cancer, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143; and Psychology Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
دوره 112 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015