Mechanisms of spontaneous human cancers

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 104, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1996, Pages 633-637

  Venitt, Stanley ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avoidable; Cancer; CpG dinucleotides; Deamination; DNA damage; Mutation; p53; Spontaneous

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; ANTIOXIDANT;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BACTERIUM; BASE PAIRING; CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEAMINATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DIET; DNA REPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION; METABOLISM; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; SOMATIC CELL; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; SUNBURN; VIRUS;

EID: 0029935970     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.96104s3633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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