Cancer as an evolutionary process at the cell level: An epidemiological perspective

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Vineis, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLOOM SYNDROME; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CLONE; CELL CYCLE; CELL LEVEL; CELL LINE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FUSION GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LINE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LEUKEMIA; METASTASIS; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTATION RATE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037278519     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/24.1.1     Document Type: Article

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