Is Cancer a Genetic Disease or a Metabolic Disease?

Affiliations

David S Wishart. EBioMedicine. 2015.

. 2015 May 23;2(6):478-9.

doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.05.022. eCollection 2015 Jun.

¹ Department of Biological Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.

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