Cancer is a functional repair tissue

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 486-490

  Meng, Xiaolong ^a   Riordan, Neil H ^a  

^a Bio Communications Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; FREE RADICAL; GROWTH FACTOR; HEAVY METAL; STEM CELL FACTOR; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

AGING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CELL DESTRUCTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTO ONCOGENE; RADIATION; STRESS; TISSUE REPAIR; VIRUS INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; WOUND HEALING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 30344479916     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.09.041     Document Type: Article

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