Contagious cancer

Oncologist

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-4

  Welsh, James S ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Willis Knighton Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Canine transmissible venereal tumor; Communicable cancer; Contagious cancers; Devil facial tumor disease; Sticker's sarcoma; Tasmanian devil; Transmissible cancer

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANINE TRANSMISSIBLE VENEREAL TUMOR; CONTAGIOUS CANCER; DEVIL FACIAL TUMOR DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MARSUPIAL; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPHILIUS HARRISII; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; DOGS; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MARSUPIALIA; NEOPLASMS; VENEREAL TUMORS, VETERINARY;

EID: 79952593287     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2010-0301     Document Type: Article

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