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Tissue Homeostasis and the Biological Basis of Cancer

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Cell movement and cell division may share a common control mechanism. Cell variation could account for its failure in malignancy.

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CARTER, S. Tissue Homeostasis and the Biological Basis of Cancer. Nature 220, 970–974 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220970a0

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