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"Modelling a new angle on understanding cancer," correspondence by Robert A. Gatenby and Philip Maini to Nature, 5 December 2002.

These researchers advocate wider acceptance of the use mathematical models in medical investigations. "Until the quantitative methods of the physical sciences are applied, many difficult and clinically important problems in tumour biology, including the dynamics that give rise to metastatic phenotype, will remain unresolved."

--- Annette Emerson

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