Foundations in Cancer Research
Foundations in Cancer Research
Published on 14. May 2014
249 pages
978-0-08-056247-6 (ISBN)
Description
Foundations in Cancer Research has been a feature of Advances in Cancer Research since Volume 59 in 1992. Foundations chapters provide reviews of historical and scientific depth in order to explain studies, events, and personalisties that have had a major impact upon the development of cancer research. Key ideas in these studies still inform current research thinking.In Volume 65, the Editors present a marvelous group of seven new Foundations chapters within a single volume. Subsequent volumes will return to the orginal format of one or two Founations chapters in each volume of the Serial.
- Describes the foundation for today's unified field of cancer research
- Provides the history of specific aspects of cancer research in personal overviews
- Reviews the origins of tumor and retro-viruses, and current concepts of carcinogenesis, genetics, tumor progression, and growth dysregulation
- Includes a biographical sketch of Sol Speigelman written by Gunther Stent
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
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ISBN-13
978-0-08-056247-6 (9780080562476)
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George F. Vande Woude | George Klein
Advances in Cancer Research: Volume 65
Foundations in Cancer Research
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12/1994
Academic Press
€54.46
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Content
J.F. Crow, Genetics in the Thirties.P.D. Lawley, Historical Origins of Current Concepts of Carcinogenesis.W.H. Clark, Jr., From the Melanocyte to Melanoma to Tumor Biology.A.J. Levine, The Origins of the Small DNA Tumor Viruses.M.B. Gardner, Retroviruses and Wild Mice: An Historical and Personal Perspective.G.S. Stent, Sol Spiegelman, and A.B. Pardee, Growth Dysregulation in Cancer Cells.Subject Index.
