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Most of the mistakes made at the start of or during the treatment of cancer arise from a failure to recognize the consequences of the existence of an interaction between the cancer and its host (Denoix, 1962). Cancer should no longer be regarded as a parasite developing inexorably in a passive host. The concept is gaining ground — and is receiving support from many experimental studies — that a malignant tumor behaves like a graft on a host that is to a greater or lesser extent capable of recognizing it as foreign to itself and thus of more or less effectively setting its own system of defence in motion against it.
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Denoix, P. (1967). The Mistakes Most Commonly Made in Treating Cancer. In: Manuila, L., Moles, S., Rentchnick, P. (eds) New Trends in the Treatment of Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87620-2_10
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