Murine and rat mammary tumors as models for the immunological study of human breast cancer

Brennan, M.J.

Cancer Research 36(2 Part 2): 728-733

1976


ISSN/ISBN: 0008-5472
PMID: 1253158
Document Number: 98257
The human breast cancer process and some aspects of experimental mammary cancer are compared in the light of Huxley's hypothesis that each neoplastic cell line may be viewed as a new obligate parasitic species derived from metazoan cells. Sufficient correlations are found to justify the hope that the viral-induced mouse mammary oncogenic process and the carcinogen-induced rat mammary system may serve as reasonable models of the human disease for immunological studies.

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