Cancer as a systemic disease.

doi:10.1016/0306-9877(78)90002-6

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Cancer as a systemic disease.

Medical hypotheses - 1 Jan 2000

Zajicek G

Abstract excerpt

Theories on the nature of cancer may be classified into two categories. One regards cancer strictly as a local phenomenon while the second looks at cancer as a local manifestation of a systemic process or disease. Although the first dominates current medical thought, the theories of immunological surveillance and of protovirus-oncogene implicitly assume cancer to represent a local manifestation of a systemic...

Topics

Adult
Age Factors
Arteriosclerosis
Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Biological
Mutation
Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasms
United States

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PMID: 672709
DOI: 10.1016/0306-9877(78)90002-6

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