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The confrontation of scientists in basic research with the problem of cancer has yielded a multitude of new findings and new approaches in theory and experimental research in recent years. While the selction of promising research approaches in the past tended to be somewhat fortuitous and accidental, i.e., was based on isolated observations of differences between normal and malignant cells, in recent years it has also become possible to investigate the origin, diagnosis as well as possible prevention and therapy of cancer diseases with well-defined aims, following basic principles of cell and molecular biology.
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Herrmann-Lerdon, H., Niehrs, C. (1998). Cell Differentiation and Carcinogenesis. In: Current Cancer Research 1998. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95995-0_4
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