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A patient who has been abusing tobacco smoking for a long time suffers from cough accompanied by the expectoration of viscous mucus. He complains of fatigue upon physical exertion accompanied by skin pallor. The patient has also lost weight (12,0 kg). He is diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma. Name a pathological process that preceded the tumour formation: