| Viruses and Cancer Contributor(s): Rigby, P. W. J. (Editor), Wilkie, N. M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521268672 ISBN-13: 9780521268677 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $79.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1985 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Oncology - General - Medical | Microbiology - Science | Life Sciences - Microbiology |
| Dewey: 616.994 |
| LCCN: 84023136 |
| Series: Society for General Microbiology Symposia |
| Physical Information: 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume discusses our present knowledge of the role of viruses in the causation of cancer, both in humans and in animal model systems. The fourteen chapters consider the molecular biology and the biology and epidemiology of those viruses which appear to have a role in human cancer, namely hepatitis B virus, Epstein-Barr virus, papillornaviruses, herpes viruses and the Human T-Cell leukaemia virus and discuss various aspects of other viruses which are oncogenic in animal systems, and have provided important information as to the mechanisms of malignant transformation. |