Advances in Cancer Research
Foundations in Cancer Research
- 1st Edition, Volume 65 - November 14, 1994
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: George F. Vande Woude, George Klein
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 5 7 0 5 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 6 2 4 7 - 6
Foundations in Cancer Research has been a feature of Advances in Cancer Research since Volume 59 in 1992. Foundations chapters provide reviews of historical and scientific depth… Read more
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Request a sales quoteFoundations in Cancer Research has been a feature of Advances in Cancer Research since Volume 59 in 1992. Foundations chapters provide reviews of historical and scientific depth in order to explain studies, events, and personalisties that have had a major impact upon the development of cancer research. Key ideas in these studies still inform current research thinking.
In Volume 65, the Editors present a marvelous group of seven new Foundations chapters within a single volume. Subsequent volumes will return to the orginal format of one or two Founations chapters in each volume of the Serial.
In Volume 65, the Editors present a marvelous group of seven new Foundations chapters within a single volume. Subsequent volumes will return to the orginal format of one or two Founations chapters in each volume of the Serial.
- Describes the foundation for today's unified field of cancer research
- Provides the history of specific aspects of cancer research in personal overviews
- Reviews the origins of tumor and retro-viruses, and current concepts of carcinogenesis, genetics, tumor progression, and growth dysregulation
- Includes a biographical sketch of Sol Speigelman written by Gunther Stent
Researchers and students in basic and clinical science of cancer biology and oncology, plus related areas in immunology, virology, genetics, and molecular biology.
J.F. Crow, Genetics in the Thirties.
P.D. Lawley, Historical Origins of Current Concepts of Carcinogenesis.
W.H. Clark, Jr., From the Melanocyte to Melanoma to Tumor Biology.
A.J. Levine, The Origins of the Small DNA Tumor Viruses.
M.B. Gardner, Retroviruses and Wild Mice: An Historical and Personal Perspective.
G.S. Stent, Sol Spiegelman, and A.B. Pardee, Growth Dysregulation in Cancer Cells.
Subject Index.
P.D. Lawley, Historical Origins of Current Concepts of Carcinogenesis.
W.H. Clark, Jr., From the Melanocyte to Melanoma to Tumor Biology.
A.J. Levine, The Origins of the Small DNA Tumor Viruses.
M.B. Gardner, Retroviruses and Wild Mice: An Historical and Personal Perspective.
G.S. Stent, Sol Spiegelman, and A.B. Pardee, Growth Dysregulation in Cancer Cells.
Subject Index.
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 65
- Published: November 14, 1994
- No. of pages (eBook): 235
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124157057
- eBook ISBN: 9780080562476
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George F. Vande Woude
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
NCI-Frederick Cancer Research Facility Frederick, Maryland
ABL-Basic Research Program, NCI-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, MarylandGK
George Klein
Affiliations and expertise
Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, SwedenRead Advances in Cancer Research on ScienceDirect