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In cancer research, two kinds of methods are currently practised. In the first series, chemicals or radiations are administered to animals or humans and after a while, a body count helps to establish the statistics of the disease or the cure rate and the effectiveness of a therapy (Figure 1). We call these the ‘black box methods’. In the other manner, people try to get to know what could happen inside the black box by examining the disease at the molecular scale.
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Huong, P.V. (1989). Metallo-Organic Complexes and Carcinogenesis. In: Maruani, J. (eds) Molecules in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Topics in Molecular Organization and Engineering, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1173-4_6
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