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Inspite of the obvious formal difference between wound healing and tumour growth — the former is a normal physiological process while the latter is a pathological one — there are many similarities between them (Dvorak 1986). As tissue repair is a normal response to injury, the growth of solid tumours may be likened to an aberration of successful wound healing — an old concept which has been considerably developed in the past decade (Whalen 1990). Indeed, tumours are often referred to as “wounds that do not heal” (Dvorak 1986).
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Solyanik, G. (1997). Wound Healing and Tumour Growth — Relations and Differences —. In: Alt, W., Deutsch, A., Dunn, G.A. (eds) Dynamics of Cell and Tissue Motion. Mathematics and Biosciences in Interaction. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8916-2_20
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