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Comments on some models of carcinogenesis
Author(s) -
LÖwdin PerOlov
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.560300832
Subject(s) - carcinogenesis , relevance (law) , subject (documents) , disease , psychology , epistemology , cognitive science , cancer , medicine , computer science , biology , philosophy , genetics , political science , library science , law
This article serves as an introduction to a panel discussion on the subject “Models of Carcinogenesis” at the 1986 Sanibel Symposium on Quantum Biology and Quantum Pharmacology, and it gives a brief review of some of the current models. After listening to the various presentations expressing quite diversified views as to the cause of carcinogenesis at the 1977 Sanibel Symposium, I wrote a similar review [1] and emphasized that some models seem more probable than the others. The development during the years has shown, however, that cancer is such a multifaceted disease that almost all of the models discussed have turned out to have some relevance.

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