Cancer: An old disease, a new disease or something in between?

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 728-733

  David, A Rosalie ^a   Zimmerman, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIQUITY; ARCHEOLOGY; ART; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXCISION; FOSSIL; FUMIGATION; GREECE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LITERATURE; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; OSSIFYING MYOSITIS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SKELETON; X RAY;

ANIMALS; ART; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PALEOPATHOLOGY;

EID: 77957162467     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2914     Document Type: Review

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