As a major contributor to the many (often contentious) debates as to the causes of the
various epidemics which regularly ravaged Victorian Britain, William Budd came to have a …

Theodor Boveri would surely be impressed, and pleased, to learn how his skeletal idea that
cancer is a genetic disease of somatic cells has been fleshed out over the ensuing near …

The fundamental ideas on the causes of cancer have been known for some time. They can
now be interpreted in terms of the notion that cancer is essentially a genetic disease at the …

Cancer asa genetic disease Several steps are needed to turn a normal cell into a cancer
cell. Most, if not all, of these include mutational change. Cancer is therefore a genetic …

Henry 1. Lynch, MD distinguished portion of his achievement centers on the relationship
between cancer and genetics. This work predated the re discovery of Mendel's principles …

A paper based upon the Sir Thomas Myles Lecture delivered during the Sylvester
O'Halloran Surgical Scientific Meeting, University of Limerick, March 2000. Sir Thomas …

This concise, multi-authored textbook on cancer genetics sets out to introduce clinicians to
common inherited cancer syndromes and allow identification of at-risk individuals and …

Present day clinicians usually rely upon the most recent medical literature to assist them with
the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in their patients. The historian, on the other hand …

The molecular genetics of human cancers clearly covers a very wide field. In this review
therefore, I will aim to provide a broad perspective, whilst at the same time attempt to …

This is a detailed and comprehensive review of the molecular aspects of cancer aetiology
and development in man. It is aimed at advanced students and trainees in cancer-related …