Tumor and the microenvironment: A chance to reframe the paradigm of carcinogenesis?

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bizzarri, Mariano ^a   Cucina, Alessandra ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER TISSUE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FATE; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THINKING; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CARCINOGENESIS; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84903648163     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/934038     Document Type: Review

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