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National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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The NCI Thesaurus is a comprehensive collection of terms relating to cancer biology, clinical oncology, and cancer epidemiology. The NCI Thesaurus was conceived in the 1990s as a compendium of everything that the NCI cared about in its research portfolio.

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Musen, M.A. (2013). National Cancer Institute Thesaurus. In: Dubitzky, W., Wolkenhauer, O., Cho, KH., Yokota, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9863-7_1512

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