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@article{citeulike:4670168, abstract = {Patients and politicians anxiously await and increasingly demand a 'cure' for cancer. But trying to control the disease may prove a better plan than striving to cure it, says Robert A. Gatenby. The German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich introduced the concept of 'magic bullets' more than 100 years ago: compounds that could be engineered to selectively target and kill tumour cells or disease-causing organisms without affecting the normal cells in the body. The success of antibiotics 50 years later seemed to be a strong validation of Ehrlich's idea.}, author = {Gatenby, Robert A.}, citeulike-article-id = {4670168}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/459508a}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/459508a}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19478766}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19478766}, day = {28}, doi = {10.1038/459508a}, issn = {1476-4687}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {cancer}, month = {May}, number = {7246}, pages = {508--509}, posted-at = {2009-05-30 00:03:16}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {A change of strategy in the war on cancer.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/459508a}, volume = {459}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4670168 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4670168 N2 - Patients and politicians anxiously await and increasingly demand a 'cure' for cancer. But trying to control the disease may prove a better plan than striving to cure it, says Robert A. Gatenby. The German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich introduced the concept of 'magic bullets' more than 100 years ago: compounds that could be engineered to selectively target and kill tumour cells or disease-causing organisms without affecting the normal cells in the body. The success of antibiotics 50 years later seemed to be a strong validation of Ehrlich's idea. IS - 7246 JF - Nature SN - 1476-4687 EP - 509 TI - A change of strategy in the war on cancer. PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 459 SP - 508 KW - cancer AU - Gatenby, Robert PY - 2009/05/28/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/459508a ER -