Theories concerning viruses and neoplasms

Sforza, M.; Perelli Ercolini, M.; D'Alessandro, G.

Archivio Per le Scienze Mediche 134(4): 399-401

1977


ISSN/ISBN: 0004-0312
PMID: 610689
Document Number: 120178
The causes of neoplasia are discussed with particular reference to viruses. Stress is laid on some differences between the mainly cytolytic action of viruses in man and their possible cancerigenic power. It is felt that neoplasia arises from a variety of aetiologies, mostly of an irritative nature, coupled with a single, final pathogenetic mechanism linked to chromosome changes that do not result in the death of the cell.

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