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A useful road map of cancer is that all paths leading to the cancer cell go by the way of a stem cell.
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Tu, SM. (2010). Origin of Cancer. In: Origin of Cancers. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 154. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5968-3_4
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