Advances in Cancer Research
Foundations in Cancer Research
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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 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.
Key Features
- 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
Readership
Researchers and students in basic and clinical science of cancer biology and oncology, plus related areas in immunology, virology, genetics, and molecular biology.
Table of Contents
- 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.
Product details
- No. of pages: 235
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 1994
- Published: November 14, 1994
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080562476
About the Serial Volume Editors
George 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, Maryland
George Klein
Affiliations and Expertise
Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden