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Forty years of research into retinoblastoma has seen wide-ranging changes in our knowledge of the histogenesis of this childhood tumour and in the treatment of the disease. These changes, and some of the more recent developments in the molecular biology of this tumour are reviewed.
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McCartney, A., Olver, J., Kingston, J. et al. Forty years of retinoblastoma; into the fifth age. Eye 2 (Suppl 1), S13–S18 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1988.129
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