Specific relationships in neoplastic disease.

Abstract excerpt

There is an interesting story about Louis Pasteur, told a René Dubos, which bears on a discussion of specific, causation-related relationships in human neoplastic disease as a primary focus of biomedical research. The conceptual/axiomatic way in which Pasteur thought about infectious disease remains entirely relevant to efficacious, operationally-relevant thought about neoplastic disease. Approaches to the...

Topics

• Humans
• Models, Biological
• Mutation
• Neoplasms