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We can define cancer as a genetic, multistep, and clonal disease, but we will see later in this chapter that this perspective is changing.
This chapter is dedicated to normal cell biology and how cells become malignant.
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Murphy, A.E., Charnay-Sonnek, F. (2019). Basis of Carcinogenesis. In: Charnay-Sonnek, F., Murphy, A. (eds) Principle of Nursing in Oncology . Principles of Specialty Nursing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76457-3_1
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