In recent years several reviews have been published about our present knowledge of the
most fundamental problem in basic cancer research, viz., that of carcinogenesis (28, 43, 59 …

Dr. Creech, fellow members, and guests, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for
the honor of being your president for the past year. It has been a year of mixed blessings for …

In 1987 the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service appointed a
committee of leading scientists to" formulate, as far as possible, the fundamental aspects of …

The prevention and cure of cancer has been one of the great goals of medical science for
many years. Although only partial success can yet be claimed, intensive research on an …

There are several commonly accepted concepts in cancer research, even though they are
still largely unproved. We discuss here two such concepts: 1) immune surveillance, ie, that …

Multiple factors contribute to the development of neoplasia. Sometimes a single agency can
bring about a tumour if it has many different effects, but at other times a tumour arises more …

Insight into the nature of the basic cellular mecha nisms that underlie the tumorous state has
for about a century now posed a challenging problem for students of oncology. So elusive …

It is generally accepted that cancer development in many organs or tissues and with different
types of carcinogenic stimuli, including chemicals, radiations and at least some viruses …

I BELIEVE THAT CANCER IS THE MOST challenging disease which confronts biological sci-
ence. It involves the most basic phenomenon in biology, namely, growth. It is characterized …

Cellular oncology covers an ill-delineated set of topics, some of which overlap with the
clinical level of analysis, like 'invasiveness', others with the molecular level, like 'autocrine …