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A New Paradigm for Cancer?

B. Strauss, M. Bertolaso, I. Ernberg, and M.J. Bissell (editors): Rethinking Cancer: A New Paradigm for the Postgenomic Era; Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2021, 432 pp, $60 hbk, ISBN 978-0-262-04521-6

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Plutynski, A. A New Paradigm for Cancer?. Biol Theory 17, 227–230 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00398-x

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