Effects of alcohol on tumor growth, metastasis, immune response, and host survival

Alcohol Research: Current Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Meadows, Gary G ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Alcohol use duration; Alcohol induced disease; Alcoholism; Angiogenesis; Animal models; Cancer; Cancer progression; Chemotherapy; Epigenetic mechanisms; Host survival; Human studies; Immune response; Immune system; Metastasis; Risk factors; Treatment; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR ESCAPE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR ESCAPE;

EID: 84933074279     PISSN: 21683492     EISSN: 21694796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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