Viral Etiology of Cancer and Leukemia: A Look into the Past, Present, and Future—G. H. A. Clowes Memorial Lecture

Cancer Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1978, Pages 485-493

  gross, Ludwik ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CHICKEN; ETIOLOGY; LATENT VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOVIRUS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; NORMAL HUMAN; ONCOVIRINAE; PAPOVAVIRUS; REVIEW; SLOW VIRUS DISEASE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 20TH CENT.; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; LEUKEMIA, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MICE; NEOPLASMS; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; POLYOMAVIRIDAE; POLYOMAVIRUS; PREGNANCY; SLOW VIRUS DISEASES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

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