Cancer: A profit-driven biosystem?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 186-189

  Deisboeck, Thomas S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CANCER CELL; CANCER CONTROL; CELL EXPANSION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45649083336     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

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