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THIS communication presents the results of some preliminary experiments which demonstrate that in the mouse the trophoblast can actively invade and destroy the tissue of a mammary cancer.
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KIRBY, D. Ability of the Trophoblast to destroy Cancer Tissue. Nature 194, 696–697 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194696a0
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