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A change of strategy in the war on cancer

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  • Robert A. Gatenby

    (Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida 33612, USA. robert.gatenby@moffitt.org)

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Patients and politicians anxiously await and increasingly demand a 'cure' for cancer. But trying to control the disease may prove a better plan than striving to cure it, says Robert A. Gatenby.

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  • Robert A. Gatenby, 2009. "A change of strategy in the war on cancer," Nature, Nature, vol. 459(7246), pages 508-509, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:459:y:2009:i:7246:d:10.1038_459508a
    DOI: 10.1038/459508a
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