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Oncology

a strategy borrowed from extinction biology that uses a first strike to shrink a cancer population and then switches therapy to drive the small remnant to extinction.

In oncology, extinction therapy refers to a strategy borrowed from extinction biology that uses a first strike to shrink a cancer population and then switches therapy to drive the small remnant to extinction. This meaning comes from Gatenby (2020) in Cancer Research.[1]

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Gatenby, R. A., Artzy-Randrup, Y., Epstein, T., Reed, D. R., & Brown, J. S. (2020). Eradicating Metastatic Cancer and the Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Anthropocene Extinctions. Cancer Research, 80(3), 613-623. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-19-1941

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