Paradoxes in carcinogenesis: New opportunities for research directions

BMC Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Baker, Stuart G ^a   Kramer, Barnett S ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; DNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CARCINOGEN DNA INTERACTION; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA REPAIR; DOWN SYNDROME; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRECANCER; SARCOMA; SOMATIC MUTATION; TESTIS CANCER; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM; ANIMAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RAT; RESEARCH; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; NEOPLASMS; RATS; RESEARCH;

EID: 34848857387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-7-151     Document Type: Article

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