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Neoplasms frequently become more aggressive during the course of their development, often with concomitant loss of specific differentiated properties. This is “tumor progression”, and my purpose is to suggest how cytogenetic data may provide clues to the nature of the process.
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Nowell, P.C. (1980). Chromosomes and Tumor Progression. In: McKinnell, R.G., DiBerardino, M.A., Blumenfeld, M., Bergad, R.D. (eds) Differentiation and Neoplasia. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38267-6_13
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