Research on early-stage carcinogenesis: Are we approaching paradigm instability?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 3215-3218

  Baker, Stuart G ^a   Cappuccio, Antonio ^b   Potter, John D ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; DNA METHYLATION; EARLY CANCER; HUMAN; NOTE; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77954749634     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.28.5460     Document Type: Note

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