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Clinical oncology has centered mainly on developing new strategies and a multitude of new drugs for fighting relapsing and progressive cancer during the last two decades. Furthermore, it has done this with respectable success in quite a number of neoplastic diseases such as acute leukemias and sarcomas in pediatric patients and certain types of aggressive lymphomas, as well as selected solid tumors such as testicular cancer and choriocarcinoma in adult age. Curatively intended adjuvant chemo- and endocrine-therapies of several “main killers” among prevalent cancer types, especially breast and colon cancer, have also become successful and health-politically meaningful therapeutic targets [1,2].
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Senn, HJ. (2003). Introduction. In: Senn, HJ., Morant, R. (eds) Tumor Prevention and Genetics. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 163. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55647-0_1
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