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To Be an Object in a Biological System

The Necessity of a Formal-Pragmatic Communication Theory

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From Molecular to Modular Tumor Therapy

Part of the book series: The Tumor Microenvironment ((TTME,volume 3))

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Based on communication-technical considerations, it has become obvious that both reductionist and holistic understandings are equitably exerted to reproduce the situational stage of a tumor disease. As required by methodology, these approaches have to virtually dissect the coherence of systems and the functional ‘world’ of distinct tumor systems: Differential perspectives of interaction are entangled with various levels of knowledge and consecutively with different therapy strategies.

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  1. Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93053, Regensburg, Germany

    Albrecht Reichle

  2. Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, Shreveport, USA

    Gerhard C. Hildebrandt

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    Albrecht Reichle

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Reichle, A., Hildebrandt, G.C. (2010). To Be an Object in a Biological System. In: Reichle, A. (eds) From Molecular to Modular Tumor Therapy. The Tumor Microenvironment, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9531-2_26

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