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The expression oncology recapitulates ontogeny connotes that normality in one context may be anomaly in another.
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Tu, SM. (2010). Ontogeny and Oncology. In: Origin of Cancers. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 154. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5968-3_9
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