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Article Dans Une Revue Organisms. Journal of Biological Sciences Année : 2017

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Cancer Galaxy. How two critics missed their destination

Maël Montévil
Arnaud Pocheville
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Two main theories aim at understanding carcinogenesis: the reductionist SMT locates cancer in cancer cells, while the organi-cist TOFT locates cancer at the tissue level. For TOFT, the 'cancer cell' is a phlogiston, SMT is an old paradigm which ought to be replaced. Recently two critics have argued that TOFT and SMT, despite their apparent strong incompatibilities, are actually compatible. Here we review their arguments. We show that these arguments are based on interpretation mistakes that become understandable once one grants that criticizing a paradigm from the point of view of another, in which words do not have the same signification, bears the risk of strong misunderstandings. These misunderstandings, in our experience, are common. We hope that this discussion will help clarifying the differences between TOFT and SMT.
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hal-02398768 , version 1 (08-12-2019)

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Maël Montévil, Arnaud Pocheville. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Cancer Galaxy. How two critics missed their destination. Organisms. Journal of Biological Sciences, 2017, 1, pp.37-48. ⟨10.13133/2532-5876_2.9⟩. ⟨hal-02398768⟩
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