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" Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis "
edited by Elizabeth K. Weisburger.
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BL
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736645
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b556510
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edited by Elizabeth K. Weisburger.
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Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis\ edited by Elizabeth K. Weisburger.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1989
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Cancer growth and progression, 2.
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(204 pages)
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9400925263
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: 9789400925267
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1. The influence of human behavior on neoplastic progression --;2. The influence of stressors on the progression of neoplastic change --;3. The seven types of causes of neoplastic growth --;an organismic view --;4. Chemoprevention research --;5. Premalignant and non-invasive lesions of the urinary bladder --;6. Species-specific aspects of the carcinogenicity of chloroform --;7. Carcinogenic effects of ionizing radiation --;8. Selected aspects of viral carcinogenesis --;9. The quantum theory of carcinogenesis --;a short review --;10. Cellular oncogene activation by chromosomal translocation --;11. Amplification of the oncogene N-Myc as a correlate to advanced stage in human neuroblastomas --;12. Potential roles of activated proto-oncogenes in malignant progression --;13. Oncogenes and their encoded products as targets for cancer therapy --;14. Methods to study RAS oncogene-mediated induction of the metastatic phenotype --;15. Oncogene products as potential therapeutic targets for control of established metastatic disease --;16. Neoplastic cell stages and progression in experimental hepatocarcinogenesis --;17. Characterization of eleven important transplantable murine tumors from the standpoint of morphology, pyrimidine biosynthesis and responsiveness to pyrimidine antimetabolites --;18. Use of organ expiant and cell culture in cancer research --;19. Season of operation and differential long-term progression: clinical, statistical, and psychological issues --;20. Endogenous factors affecting the progression of carcinogen-induced rat mammary carcinomas --;21. Age factors in the presence of selected neoplasms --;22. Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields as possible promotors of carcinogenesis --;23. Medical geography and neoplasms --;Index of subjects.
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Cancer causation may be ascribed to invasive lesions, species-specific aspects of carcinogenicity, certain chemicals, physical agents, radioactive materials, viruses, parasites, the genetic make-up of the organism, and radiation, viruses, a quantum theory of carinogenesis, onco- bacteria.
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Medicine.
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Oncology.
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Pathology.
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RC268.5E358 1989
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Elizabeth K Weisburger
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