Cancer as a complex adaptive system

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 235-241

  Schwab, E D ^a   Pienta, K J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Hematology Oncology 3216 Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0029795904     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(96)90086-9     Document Type: Article

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