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In particular, we hypothesize that natural selection acting on competing phenotypes among the cancer cell population will tend to favor aggressive "cheaters" that then grow as a tumor on their parent tumor, creating a hypertumor that damages or destroys the original neoplasm.
Why don't all whales have cancer? A novel hypothesis resolving Peto's paradox John D Nagy 2025
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