Carcinogenesis

Proceedings of a Symposium on the Biology of Skin Held at the University of Oregon Medical School, 1965

William Montagna, Richard L. Dobson

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780080115764
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483280295
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Oncology

Advances in Biology of Skin, Volume VII: Carcinogenesis covers proceedings of the 15th Symposium on the Biology of Skin, held at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center on April 9-11, 1965, under the auspices of the University of Oregon Medical School. This book is composed of nineteen chapters, and begins with the mechanism of tissue homeostasis in adult mammals and the kinetics of epidermal reaction to carcinogenic agents and other skin irritants. The succeeding chapters deal with the growth promoting effects of tumors on tissues, the reaction pattern distinctions between normal and neoplastic epithelium, and some biological implications of chemical carcinogenesis. Considerable chapters are devoted to various carcinogens, including hydrocarbons, viruses, androgens, and estrogens. Other chapters consider the physicochemical mechanisms of acceleration of skin carcinogenesis and experimental observations of environmental carcinogenesis. The mechanisms of skin cancer induction due to ultraviolet radiation, as well as arsenic induced tumors are examined. The concluding chapters describe some forms of skin tumors, such as adnexal tumors and basal cell epithelioma. This book will prove useful to oncologists and researchers in the field of carcinogenesis.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Carcinogenesis
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• CHAPTER I. TISSUE HOMEOSTASIS IN ADULT MAMMALS
• CHAPTER II. KINETICS OF EPIDERMAL REACTION TO CARCINOGENS AND OTHER SKIN IRRITANTS
• CHAPTER III. THE GROWTH PROMOTING EFFECTS OF TUMORS ON TISSUES
• CHAPTER IV. REACTION PATTERNS OF NORMAL AND NEOPLASTIC EPITHELIUM
• CHAPTER V. SOME BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS
• CHAPTER VI. EPIDERMAL CARCINOGENESIS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS
• CHAPTER VII. STUDIES ON THE MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR MECHANISMS OF HYDROCARBON CARCINOGENESIS
• CHAPTER VIII. TUMOR VIRUSES
• CHAPTER IX. ANDROGEN/ESTROGEN HAIR FOLLICLE TUMORIGENESIS (CHAETEPITHELIOMA FORMATION) IN THE SCENT GLAND OF THE SYRIAN HAMSTER
• CHAPTER X. PHYSICOCHEMICAL MECHANISMS OF ACCELERATION OF SKIN CARCINOGENESIS
• CHAPTER XI. ENVIRONMENTAL CARCINOGENESIS: EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS RELATED TO OCCUPATIONAL CANCER
• CHAPTER XII. ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION AND SKIN CANCER IN MAN
• CHAPTER XIII. ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT CARCINOGENESIS
• CHAPTER XIV. ARSENICAL CARCINOGENESIS
• CHAPTER XVI. ADNEXAL TUMORS, BENIGN, NOT-SO-BENIGN AND MALIGNANT
• CHAPTER XVII. CUTANEOUS PREMALIGNANT LESIONS
• CHAPTER XVIII. BASAL CELL EPITHELIOMA: A CONTROLLED STUDY OF ASSOCIATED FACTORS
• CHAPTER XIX. CUTANEOUS CARCINOGENESIS IN SIMIAN PRIMATES
• INDEX