Angel H Roffo: The forgotten father of experimental tobacco carcinogenesis

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 494-496

  Proctor, Robert N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; NOTE; SMOKING;

ARGENTINA; BENZOPYRENES; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; COAL TAR; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33744919796     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.031682     Document Type: Note

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