Is cancer just an incurable infectious disease?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 986-996

  Broxmeyer, L ^a  

^a 148 14A Eleventh Avenue ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DACTINOMYCIN; TAMOXIFEN;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RESEARCH; CARCINOGENESIS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEPROSY; LYSOGENIZATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REED STERNBERG CELL; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS;

ACTINOMYCETALES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MYCOBACTERIUM;

EID: 7044234746     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.05.008     Document Type: Article

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