Cancer: Cell Structures, Carcinogens and Genomic Instability

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2006.
• Series: Experientia Supplementum ; 96
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Biomedicine general.

Tumors can be induced by a variety of physical and chemical carcinogens. The resulting tumor cells are usually abnormal in their morphology and behavior and transmit their abnormalities to their daughter tumor cells. Most theories of the pathogenesis of tumors suggest that carcinogens in some way ca...