# Turning ecology and evolution against cancer

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## TL;DR

Paper cited by one technology page, indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 24739582 and published in Nature Reviews Cancer; the citing page links this DOI, which is how the record was matched.

## Summary

The fight against cancer has drawn researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from molecular biology to physics, but the perspective of an ecological theorist has been mostly overlooked. By thinking about the cells that make up a tumour as an endangered species, cancer vulnerabilities become more apparent. Studies in conservation biology and microbial experiments indicate that extinction is a complex phenomenon, which is often driven by the interaction of ecological and evolutionary processes. Recent advances in cancer research have shown that tumours, like species striving for survival, harbour intricate population dynamics, which suggests the possibility to exploit the ecology of tumours for treatment.

Indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 24739582 (DOI 10.1038/nrc3712). Matched by DOI alone: one technology page cites this DOI among its external links (the pages are listed under Related), and this page was written so that the citation resolves inside OnCo. No figure has been checked by an editor.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Tags: europepmc-ingest
- Journal: Nature Reviews Cancer
- Year: 2014
- DOI: 10.1038/nrc3712
- Authors: Korolev KS, Xavier JB, Gore J
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## Sources

- Nat Rev Cancer 2014: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrc3712
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24739582/
- Europe PMC: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/24739582

## Connected records

- technologies: [Evolutionary game theory in cancer](https://onco.cc/technologies/evolutionary-game-theory-cancer/)
- journals: [Nature Reviews Cancer](https://onco.cc/journals/nature-reviews-cancer/)

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