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Already in old Egypt tumor diseases were well known. Since that time we have learned that cancer (neoplasm, tumor) is a disorder of cells and that its development is a multistep process. At least three different stages have been defined: Initiation, promotion and progression.
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Düchting, W. (1990). Computer Simulation in Cancer Research. In: Möller, D.P.F. (eds) Advanced Simulation in Biomedicine. Advances in Simulation, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8614-6_6
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