Cancer as a robust system: Implications for anticancer therapy

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 227-235

  Kitano, Hiroaki ^a,b  

^a SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^b Systems Biology Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; ANGIOTENSIN; ENDOSTATIN; GEFITINIB; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; IMATINIB; PROTEIN P53;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER THERAPY; CYTOSTASIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC STABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 1542619848     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1300     Document Type: Review

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