Article
[Is cancer a transmittable disease?].
Gaceta medica de Mexico - 1 Jan 2000
Meléndez-Zajgla Jorge, Maldonado Vilma
Abstract excerpt
A direct, horizontal and natural transmission of neoplasic cells has only recently been accepted by the biomedical community. There are three known examples in mammals: the Tasmanian Devil Tumor Disease, the Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor and a similar disease in Sirian Hamsters. These diseases are not anecdotic cases only, but provide support for the cancer clonal evolution hypothesis.
Topics
- Animal Diseases
- Animals
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Clone Cells
- Cricetinae
- Culicidae
- Disease Models, Animal
- Disease Transmission, Infectious
- Dog Diseases
- Dogs
- Evolution, Molecular
- Facial Neoplasms
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Insect Bites and Stings
- Major Histocompatibility Complex
- Marsupialia