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Cancer biology

the presence of widespread pre-cancerous change across a tissue area, explaining multiple and recurrent primary tumors.

In cancer biology, field cancerization refers to the presence of widespread pre-cancerous change across a tissue area, explaining multiple and recurrent primary tumors. This meaning comes from Slaughter (1953) in Cancer.[1]

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Slaughter, D. P., Southwick, H. W., & Smejkal, W. (1953). “Field cancerization” in oral stratified squamous epithelium. Clinical implications of multicentric origin. Cancer, 6(5), 963-968. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0142(195309)6:5<963::aid-cncr2820060515>3.0.co;2-q

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