Until recently the tumor process has been regarded as a one-step cause and effect event. The investigations during the past ten years have shown to an increasing extent the developmental character of the tumors, as well as the significance of various factors affecting the process of malignancy. Although the division of tumor process into three phases, (Induction, Critical and Progression), was suggested by Kline and Rush in 1941, it was not until 1951 that the concepts of Greene and Furth have, so to say, switched the consensus by dividing the tumors into autonomous and dependent, therefore denying the generally held view that cancer always represents an autonomous self-perpetuating entity. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.111305 |
| Date | January 1957 |
| Creators | Singh, T.B. |
| Contributors | Skoryna, S.C. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Experimental Surgery.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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