Epilogue: What we don't know about cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 6 A, 1999, Pages 4919-4933

  Witte, Marlys H ^a   Witte, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Carcinogenesis; Ignorance

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOGENESIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIETY;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH;

EID: 0033379918     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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