The multistage model of cancer development: Some implications

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 125-145

  Ritter, Gordon ^a   Wilson, Richard ^a   Pompei, Francesco ^a   Burmistrov, Dimitriy ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

beta model; cancer incidence; carcinogenesis; cellular senescence; multistage model; old age

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENESCENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOMETRY; CELL AGING; COCARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 13244292579     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0748233703th195oa     Document Type: Article

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