The Biology of Cancer

These notes are from the final third of the Spring 1995 Biology of Cancer class given at Berkeley. No effort has been made to verify this information, and I have no plans to complete this archive any time in the near future.

More information is avaliable about the microbiology of cancer on the list of cancer sites I've collected.

Table of Contents

o Tumor Immunology
o Cell types involved in immunity
o Changes in Antigenicity of Tumor Cells
o Transplantation Biology
o Experimental Tumors and the Immunosurveillance Theory
o Spontaneous Tumors
o The Multistep Genesis of Carcinoma
o Stages in Human Carcinogenesis
o Evidence
o The Monoclonal Origin of Tumors
o How Cancer Spreads
o How Cancer Spreads
o The Metastasis Potential of Cancers
o Lymph/Blood Chronology of Metastasis
o Specificity
o Human Cancer Risk Factors
o Viruses
o Genetic/Cytogenetic Factors
o Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
o Concepts and Definitions
o References for Background and Additional Reading about Cancer and Microbiology
o Cancer-related references
o Microbiology-related references
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Last revised:
1995 May 29
by sev@byz.org