Cancer genes: current status, future prospects, and applications in radiotherapy/oncology.

doi:10.1016/0167-8140(90)90148-p

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Cancer genes: current status, future prospects, and applications in radiotherapy/oncology.

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - 1 Nov 1990

Renan M J

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There is a sense of excitement in contemporary cancer research, generated largely by the discovery, and subsequent characterization, of oncogenes. These genes are part of the normal complement of cells, and become altered in their structure or expression, during the development of the neoplastic...

Topics

Animals
Chromosome Aberrations
Genes, Tumor Suppressor
Humans
Medical Oncology
Mutation
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced
Oncogene Proteins
Oncogenes
Oncogenic Viruses
Proto-Oncogenes

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