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Cancer that colonizes our bodies

02-18-2007 · EurekAlert!

Tomorrow AAAS Fellow, Robert C. von Borstel will talk about how cancer cell mutation and selection are metaphorically similar to the evolution of a new species.Like the first pregnant finch that landed in the Galapagos, the first cancer cell in a body has to undergo many mutations through many generations to establish itself. But once there, like any newly stabilized species in different ecological niches, cancer is tough to get rid of.

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