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In the past, most clinicians have focused their interest on the end stage of human cancer, i.e. diagnosis and treatment of the patient with an established cancer, usually (in over 50% of cases) progressing fairly rapidly to a terminal situation. With new knowledge, clinical oncologists of the next few years will need to have a much broader and more comprehensive view of cancer as an extremely long-term process usually lasting many years (see Fig. 1). In particular, clinicians will have to have a better understanding of “preventive oncology”.
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International Union Against Cancer. (1978). Introduction and overview. In: Clinical Oncology. International Union Against Cancer / Union Internationale Contre le Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96472-5_1
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