Article
Morphological aspects of carcinogenesis in the lung.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Dec 2001
Chyczewski L, Niklinski J, Chyczewska E, Niklinska W, Naumnik W
Abstract excerpt
The origins of the various histological types of primary lung cancer are not well understood. Numerous recent studies have indicated that lung cancer is not a result of a sudden transforming event in the bronchial and alveolar epithelium and in the neuroendocrine cells, but a multistep process in which a sequence of morphological and genetic changes is occurring. New modern technical approaches like fluorescence...
Topics
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Hyperplasia
- Lung
- Lung Neoplasms
- Precancerous Conditions
