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A unified theory of growth, cytodifferentiation and disease can explain many features of natural cancers which are incompatible with purely cytological explanations.
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BURCH, P. New Approach to Cancer. Nature 225, 512–516 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225512a0
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