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Figure 3

From: Cancer: looking for simplicity and finding complexity

Figure 3

Hierarchical manifestation of human cancer. Neoplasia is a complex system determined by a number of processes acting at different molecular and cellular scales, by controls operating over much broader scales, and by factors such as structural controls that may operate at scales ranging from molecular to environmental. The schema exemplify some of the manifestations that can be found at different level of cancer complexity, all of them acting and governed by specific laws that only operate at a particular level.

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