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The demonstration of specific carcino-embryonic antigens common to malignant adult and normal foetal tissues of the human digestive system.

The established importance of cancer as a cause of human mortality has stimulated the development of a vast field of cancer research or oncology. The techniques and concepts which have been employed in attempts to gain a better understanding of malignant tumour transformation have come from almost every branch of the biological and biophysical sciences. In recent years the rapidly changing discipline of immunology has served as a ready source of new ideas for application to the problems of oncology. The present thesis represents a further attempt to utilize immunological techniques for the study of biological mechanisms underlying the development of cancer in the human host. [...]

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.117796
Date January 1965
CreatorsGold, Phil.
ContributorsFreedman, Samuel O. (Supervisor)
PublisherMcGill University
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Formatapplication/pdf
CoverageDoctor of Philosophy. (Department of Physiology.)
RightsAll items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.
Relationalephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library.

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