A general overview of the process of carcinogenesis

Tumori

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 291-301

  Parodi, Silvio ^a   Mancuso, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

carcinogenesis

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

EID: 0029803227     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089169608200401     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Adelman R., Saul R.L., Ames B.N.: Oxidative damage to DNA: relation to specied metabolic rate and life span. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 85: 2706-2708, 1988.
2. Aguilar F., Harris C.C., Sun T., Hollstein M., Cerutti P.: Geographic variation of p53 mntational profile in nonmalignant human liver. Science, 264: 1317-1319, 1994,
3. Armitage P.: Multistage models of carcinogenesis. Environ. Health Perspect., 63: 195-201, 1985.
4. Bulliard J-L., Cox B., Elwood J.M.: Latitute gradients in melanoma incidence and mortality in the non-Maori population of New Zealand. Cancer Causes and Control, 5: 234-240, 1994.
5. Capecchi M.R.: Targeted gene replacement. Scientific American. 270: 52-59, 1994.
6. Cheng K.C., Loeb L.A.: Genomic instability and tumor progression: mechanistic considerations. Adv. Cancer Res., 60: 121-149, 1993.
7. Donehower L.A., Bradley A.: The tumor suppressor p53. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1155: 181-205, 1993.
8. Donehower L.A., Harvey M., Slagle B.L., McArthur M., Montgomery C.A. Jr., Butel J.S., Bradley A.: Mice deficient for p53 are developmentally normal but susceptible to spontaneous tumor. Nature. 356: 215-221, 1992.
9. Fearon E.R., Vogelstein B.: A genetic model for colorectal tumorigenesis. Cell, 61: 759-767, 1990.
10. Fishel R., Lescoe M.K., Rao M.R.S., Copeland N.G., Jenkins N.A., Garber J., Kane M., Kolodner R.: The human mutator gene homolog MSH2 and its association with hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer. Cell, 75:1027-1038, 1993.
11. Garcea R., Daino L., Pascale R., Simile M.S., Puddu M., Ruggiu M.E., Saddaiu M.A., Satta G. Sequenza M.J., Feo F.: Protooncogene methylation and expression in regenerating liver and preneoplastic liver nodules induced in the rat by diethylnitrosamine: effect of variations of S-adenosylmethionine: S-adenosylhomocysteine ratio. Carcinogenesis, 10: 1183-1192, 1989.
12. Giardiello F.M., Hamilton S.R., Krush A.J., Piantadosi S., Hylind L.M., Celano P., Booker S.V., Rahj Robinson C., Offerhaus J.A.: Treatment of colonic and rectal adenomas with sulindac in familial adenomatous polyposis. N. Engl. J. Med., 328: 1313-1316, 1993.
13. Goetz S.E., Vogelstein B., Hamilton S.R., Feinberg A.P.: Hypomethylation of DNA from benign and malignant human colon neoplasms. Science, 228: 187-190, 1985.
14. Kelvin J.A.D. (Ed.): Oxidative damage and repair. Pergamon Press, New York, 1991.
15. Lane D.P.: p53, guardian of the genome. Nature, 358: 15-16, 1992.
16. Lavigueur A., Maltby V., Mock D., Rossant J., Pawson T., Bernstein A.: High incidence of lung, bone and lymphoid tumors in transgenic mice overexpressing mutant alleles of the p53 oncogene. Mol. Cell. Biol., 9: 3982-3991, 1989.
17. Nakazawa H., English D., Randell P.L., Nakazawa K., Martel N., Armstrong B.K., Yamasaki H.: UV and skin cancer: specific p53 gene mutation in normal skin as a biologically relevant exposure measurement. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91: 360-364, 1994.
18. Nicolaides N.C., Papadopoulous N., Liu B., Wei Y-F., Carter K.C., Ruben S.M., Rosen C.A., Haseltine W.A., Fleishmann R.D., Fraser C.M., Adams M.D., Venter J.C, Dunlop M.G., Hamilton S.R., Petersen G.M., de la Chapelle A., Vogelstein B., Kinzier K.W.: Mutations of two PMS homologues in hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer. Nature, 371: 75-80, 1994.
19. Papadopoulous N., Nicolaides N.C., Wei Y-F., Ruben S.M., Carter K.C., Rosen C.A., Haseltine W.A., Fleischmann R.D., Fraser C.M., Adams M.D., Venter J.C., Hamilton S.R., Petersen G.M., Watson P., Lynch H.T., PeltomFki P., Mecklin J-P., de la Chapelle A., Kinzler K.W., Vogelstein B.: Mutation of a mutL homolog in hereditary colon cancer. Science, 263: 1625-1629, 1994.
20. Preston-Martin S., Pike M.C., Ross R.K., Jones P.A., Henderson B.E.: Increased cell division as a cause of human cancer. Cancer Res., 50: 7415-7421, 1990.
21. Sandy M.S., Chiocca S.M., Cerutti P.A.: Genotypic analysis of mutations in Taq I restriction recognition sites by restriction fragment length polymorphism/polymerase chain reaction. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 89: 890-894, 1992.
22. Sidransky D., Tokino T., Hamilton S.R., Kinzler K.W., Levin B., Frost P., Vogelstein B.: Identification of ras oncogene mutations in the stool of patients with curable colorectal tumors. Science, 256: 102-105, 1992.