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Nerves and Tumours Talk: How the Nervous System Drives Cancer Growth and Drug Resistance

Cancer has long been framed as a disease of rogue genes, a story written almost entirely in the language of mutations, checkpoints and clonal evolution. A new review published in Medical Oncology by Fausto Petrelli of ASST Bergamo Ovest and colleagues argues that this picture is incomplete in a way that matters for patients.

Nerves and Tumours Talk: How the Nervous System Drives Cancer Growth and Drug Resistance

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Cancer has long been framed as a disease of rogue genes, a story written almost entirely in the language of mutations, checkpoints and clonal evolution.

A new review published in Medical Oncology by Fausto Petrelli of ASST Bergamo Ovest and colleagues argues that this picture is incomplete in a way that matters for patients.

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Cancer has long been framed as a disease of rogue genes, a story written almost entirely in the language of mutations, checkpoints and clonal evolution. A new review published in Medical Oncology by Fausto Petrelli of ASST Bergamo Ovest and colleagues argues that this picture is incomplete in a way that matters for patients.

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