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The circadian clock plays versatile roles in cancer development. The circadian clock machinery is reprogrammed by oncogenic pathways and chromatin remodeling in cancer tissues, thereby gaining fundamental functions in cancer development. Targeting the clock may therefore have more deleterious impact on the growth of tumor tissue than for the normal cells.
